Quotes About Existence

That death isn't death. It's not the end because we aren't just our minds or our bodies. We're far more than just physical beings having a spiritual experience. We're spiritual beings having a temporary physical experience.

What is known that cannot be named?

most of the world believes that most of what actually happens, happens without our being able to see it. That's a religious mainstay.

In fact, there are many more Fury in Haven Valley than in most places. Sylous first opened your eyes to the same fear that's always existed in the whole world, then promised to hide it from you if you follow the law. He's a spirit of religion.

So we found the end of our journey. So we stood, alive in the river of light, Among the creatures of light, creatures of light.

We stir Our self-colour in the pot of colours Which is the world.

Following a faint stain- On the air to the river's edge These weeds know me and name me to each other Have they seen me before? Do I fit in their world? I seem separate from the ground And not rooted, but dropped out of nothing casually- I've no threads fastening me to anything I can go anywhere I seem to have been given the freedom of this place- What am I then?

What happens in the heart simply happens.

The luminous spirit (maybe he is a crowd of spirits), that takes account of everything and gives everything its meaning, is missing, not missing, just incommunicado. But here and there, it may be, we hear it. It is human of course, but it is also everything that lives.

Better be a bloodless carcase than alive with the blood rotting in your body.

We must not forget that the human soul, however independently created our philosophy represents it as being, is inseparable in its birth and in its growth from the universe into which it is born. - Teilhard de Chardin

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.

Tú eres la razón de mi existencia -dijo dulcemente-, el motivo de que yo haya nacido.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal

In a male-centered gender hierarchy, where it is assumed that men are better than women and that masculinity is superior to femininity, there is no greater perceived threat than the existence of trans women, who despite being born male and inheriting male privilege 'choose' to be female instead.

Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more we look, the more we learn that everything arises from the sea and everything falls away to the sea, and the deep blue home is home to every one of us, whether we are beings of water, air, rock, ice, or soil.

Perhaps ironically, perhaps tellingly, the one thing physical science does not seem to be able to explain is what makes its own explanations possible: the existence of minds. It is our minds which have enabled us to understand the universe as much as we do, yet arguably this understanding has not extended to the subject of that understanding: human consciousness.

What matters is surely that life has a purpose for us, here and now. Whether this purpose was dreamed up by a creator or is assigned or invented by ourselves is not of paramount importance. If we can give life purpose and meaning, there is no obvious reason why this should be considered an inferior kind of meaning to that which could have been given by a creator.