Quotes About Existence

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

It isn't the Universe that's following our logic, it's we that are constructed in accordance with the logic of the Universe. And that gives what I might call a definition of intelligent life: something that reflects the basic structure of the Universe.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Damn queer," he announced. "But lots of things damn queer. Damn queer that Moon looks just same size as Sum. Damn queer that I'm here, isn't it so?

The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.

Orderly markets, like horse races, exist on differences of opinion.

Now the crucial question no longer seemed to be what life was, but what one was to do with this valueless, yet somehow uniquely valuable life?

It seemed to me that there were just two possibilities. Either no God existed, or there did exist a deity who was monstrous if powerful and futile if powerless.

Désormais, la question essentielle n'était plus de savoir ce qu'était la vie, mais de décider de ce qu'il fallait faire de cette vie sans valeur, et pourtant, en quelque sorte, d'un prix unique.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life -- physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

We live in several moments, several places, at once.

L'amour, bande de connards ! A quoi ça rime, sinon, de vivre ?

Like most Americans, though, I had led that numbingly chaste and uncommitted existence in which one forms neither sympathies nor antipathies of any enduring consequence.

Un instante placentero y desbordante de vida gloriosa vale más que toda una existencia en las sombras.» Y

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Self, stands in contradistinction to the Hindu doctrine of Atman

It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful