Quotes About Existence

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming

The word 'more' on the bottom corner of a poster, which he knew at once would read in full 'Life has become better, more cheerful!' Those posters were all over the place. The slogan advertised Soviet Champagne. Or the existence of Soviet Champagne advertised the slogan, he wasn't sure which.

It has duration. Can it not, itself, be split in two? And split again, and again, and again, divided and subdivided ad infinitum, with no stopping point? Does it not, itself, contain an abyss? The fabric of ordinary time is all hollow beneath, opening into void below void, gulf behind gulf. Every moment you care to define proving on examination to be a close-packed sheaf of finer, and yet finer ones without end; finer, in fact, always and forever, than whatever your last guess was.

My days have crackled and gone up in smoke.

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.

Si existe Dios asumirá el fracaso.

La guerra es de por vida en los hombres, porque es guerra la vida, y vivir y militar es una misma cosa

soy un fue y un será y un es cansado...

Boleslao no lo sabe, pero lo que le pasa es que no cree en la vida cumulativa. Siempre ha temido ser devorado por la vida, esa cosa de mil bocas y mil cabezas.

Los dioses del hombre jamás han tenido otra cara que la del hombre mismo [...] si mi dios no existe ¿quién soy yo?

There are no shadows in darkness. Shadows are created by light, and only exist in the presence of light. Refusing to acknowledge our shadow leads us to deny the presence of light in us.

Whatever you dream be aware that it is just a dream. Yet, since there are infinite parallel universes, whatever you dream must be real somewhere in the multiverse. And if it is real, no matter where, then it is not a dream anymore.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

You have a shrewd but prosaic mind, and you cannot conceive of an entity that does not depend for its existence on force and matter. But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?

Se te ha ocurrido alguna vez que la energía y la materia son las barreras que el tiempo y el espacio imponen a nuestra percepción?

What if, parallel to the life we know, there is another life that does not die, which lacks the elements that destroy our life? Perhaps in another dimension there is a different force from that which generates our life.

Los seres humanos, tal como los conocemos, no son sino partes infinitesimales de un todo inmenso.

Of course, of course. Mr. Buzzby, did it ever occur to you that a god may live, figuratively, a dog's life?' 'Eh?' 'Gods are transfigured, you know. They go up in smoke, as it were. In smoke and flame. They become pure flame, pure spirit, creatures with no visible body.' ("A Visitor From Egypt")

God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.

Song You know that it is there, lair where the bear ceases for a time even to exist. Crawl in. You have at last killed enough and eaten enough to be fat enough to cease for a time to exist. Crawl in. It takes talent to live at night, and scorning others you had that talent, but now you sniff the season when you must cease to exist. Crawl in. Whatever for good or ill grows within you needs you for a time to cease to exist. It is not raining inside tonight. You know that it is there. Crawl in.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

Is life worth living? It depends on the liver.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

Your decisions participate in the creation of the version of reality you will live.