Quotes About Existence

I think writing, or any form of art-making, is a way to prepare for not being here. Not that we can. No amount of preparing can really ready us, in a meaningful way, for the great void that awaits us all.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

The state of Israel seems to owe its very existence to the American Jewish vote, while at the same time consigning the non-religious to political oblivion.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

Harry Dean Stanton

It is sensible of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not 'pass away.'

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

It would be a shame if the BBC didn't exist.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.

The me that is me is not my body. It's an awareness and an experience.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.