Quotes About Existence

We have been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we are gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.

And I think the answer is that we are, in reality, terribly frail animals. And we don't like to be reminded of how frail we are—how delicate the balances are inside our own bodies, how short our stay on Earth, and how easily it is ended.

But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is.

Life is too short, and DNA too long.

But they're not real now," Wu said. "That's what I'm trying to tell you. There isn't any reality here.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." ALBERT EINSTEIN

Perhaps the fact that we bleed to death makes us human.

It is living, breathing, walking, and talking. Only we cannot see it, because it is happening too slowly. Rock has a lifespan of three billion years. we have a lifespan of sixty or seventy years. And the rock is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

The very concept of time travel makes no sense, since time doesn't flow. The fact that we think time passes is just an accident of our nervous systems—of the way things look to us. In reality, time doesn't pass; we pass. Time itself is invariant. It just is. Therefore, past and future aren't separate locations, the way New York and Paris are separate locations. And since the past isn't a location, you can't travel to it.

I believe my life has value, and I don't want to waste it thinking about clothing

I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists.

But the truth was that the Plains Indian society that Westerners saw was hardly older than the white American nation that now threatened its existence. The Plains Indians were a nomadic hunting society organized around the horse, as were the Mongols of Asia. Yet there had been no horses in America until the Spaniards introduced them three hundred years earlier, changing Plains Indian society beyond recognition.

Y entretanto, ¿te das cuenta de cómo se mueve el bote? Eso es el mar. Es real. ¿Hueles el salitre en el aire? ¿Notas el sol en la piel? Eso es real. ¿Nos ves a todos aquí juntos? Eso es real. La vida es maravillosa. Estar vivo, respirar y ver el sol es un don. Y de hecho no hay nada más que eso.

life is wonderful. its a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air.

La vida es demasiado corta y el ADN demasiado largo.

If we are gone tomorrow the Earth will not miss us.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

There's no comfort, it seems, in the world of objects.

Man, he said, I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want. What do we want? I asked blurrily. Aw, man, you know, he said. We just want, well, the same things these people wanted. What was that? He shrugged. To live, I guess, he said.

Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.

It's remarkable, being alive.

Who was it who said, the worst thing you can imagine is probably what's already happening? Shrink phrase. Not untrue, though.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end. But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.