Quotes About Existence

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.

Life is surreal and beautiful.

It was surreal to step out of my own existence and see how most American children experience things.

We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.

Most married men are completely jealous of my existence - the way it's designed. As far as, surrogate wife, surrogate kids.

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

He did not know what to do. Not just now, he thought, not just in this, not just about this, today and tomorrow, but every day on the earth.

And isn't the past inevitable, now that we call the little we remember of it "the past"? – WILLIAM MATTHEWS, from Flood

Tuhaf bir ÅŸekilde her ÅŸey olabilecekken, her ÅŸeyin zaten olduÄŸunu fark ettik.

My Crow A crow flew into the tree outside my window. It was not Ted Hughes's crow, or Galway's crow. Or Frost's, Pasternak's, or Lorca's crow. Or one of Homer's crows, stuffed with gore, after the battle. This was just a crow. That never fit in anywhere in its life, or did anything worth mentioning. It sat there on the branch for a few minutes. Then picked up and flew beautifully out of my life.

Mostly I just kill time, he said, and it dies hard.

Time passed again. I don't know how long. I had no watch. They don't make that kind of time in watches anyway.

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive." I

They are what human beings turn into when they trade life for existence and ambition for security.

How can such a hard man be so gentle? she asked wonderingly. If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive. If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

on that night you told me you were the author of my current existence.

Find where the sound ends and silence begins. Then exist in that moment, for there will you find your secret centre of being, the perfect place of peace within yourself.

In an infinite universe, all things are not only possible but, no matter how improbable, certain to exist somewhere at some time.

What is life for?' he asked rhetorically. 'It's a way to evolve thought. And what is thought for? It's a way to be aware, a stage between the physical and the spiritual. And time? it's a good way to keep things separated.

Life has shown me all too often it's a fragile gift. Remember, no one gets out of life alive.