Quotes About Existence

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

And if you show me a mathematical formula, all you are showing me is a piece of paper with strange markings on it, and I have no way of knowing not only whether the markings are actually there, but whether the piece of paper exists.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

Life is worth living really but only if we believe it is, if we believe further that life is eternal not because the tissues last forever, but because the imagination never dies

But all men die--as anonymously as they had lived, no matter what their achievements. -Istak

The man who knows of the universe of spirit walks upright, the materialist hugs the earth.

Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us in existence;

Die Natur schlägt im Menschen die Augen auf und bemerkt, dass sie da ist.

L'obsession de la rationalité est d'autant plus effrayante qu'elle ne répond plus guère à l'existence légitime de la raison, mais à la dictature de l'efficacité.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

Are you living your life or just waiting to die?

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.

Angels die? It's a frightening-miracle because here they are. The Upper God has let them drop like centuries into space. And I recognize them!

The point of art is to show people that life is worth living by showing that it isn't

First you might cry. Because shame and loneliness are almost one. Shame at existing in the first place. Shame at being visible, taking up space, breathing some of the sky, sleeping in a whole bed, asking for a share. Loneliness feels so much like shame, it always seems to need a little more time on its own.

No matter what you look at, if you look at it closely enough, you are involved in the entire universe.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

I need men to define me: to give me an idea of what I am. If I didn't have boyfriends I don't think I would exist. I would fly apart in all directions. So I must live my life in perpetual pain, if I want to live at all.

The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.

El ser humano y la muerte nunca llegan a conocerse. Nadie asiste a su propio funeral.