Quotes About Existence

So what do you do for a living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

Life is a dinner party without a host. And, frequently, without a dinner party either.

Only the past is real.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Architecture is life, or at least life itself taking form. . . the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or will ever be lived.

The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

É importante saber, com toda a certeza, que Marco Aurélio não se limita a defender o carpe diem de Horácio ou a aliciar-nos a viver cada dia como se fosse o último – embora também o faça. O que ele prega muito claramente é que o presente é tudo o que temos.

Hell's waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you're here.

Love is the only constant, the only reality, and when you accept and understand that you will know it.

your veins are using up the redness of the world.

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true—and it's real.

Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account.

God's only in your head!" my answer is, "Yeah, whatever. What isn't?

In the prologue, I said that the only answer to "Who are you?" is "When?" What was true for prologue is doubly true of epilogue. We never arrive. There are no final answers, only a series of snapshots taken along the path of "frenetic desperation."   Movies

All theology consists in finding out what is meant by the words "He is." Let us begin.

Eternity is not time at all. It is God's total possession of Himself.

The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them for His own sake, for His own pleasure. But it was His pleasure to bring into existence things that could take pleasure in existence. For our sakes He made us for His sake. To us there is something mysterious in an altruism so total, but something exciting in the mystery. Among all the mysteries, many are greater, but it is hard to think of one more pleasing.

man is essentially a social being. We should not come into existence unless other humans produced us, or stay in existence unless they maintained us in it.

ignorance about the Supreme Being is worse poverty than ignorance about any of the lesser beings He has created of nothing.

He made all things from nothing, and these perfections will be in things only in so far as nothingness can receive them, or to put it crudely, with a certain mingling of nothingness: whereas they are in God in utter purity.