Quotes About Existence

Much of morality is peculiar to mortality.

his face. "There are different ways to explain it. Here is one. The purpose of existence is the education of the will. And the meaning of life is to learn to love the right things.

We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

You just want to stop existing," Kaladin said. "You don't want to actually kill yourself, not on most days. But you figure it sure would be convenient if you weren't around anymore.

To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.

Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters.

Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without thought, capable of simply being, not thinking, caring, or hurting. Then she could be...free.

I am what the universe made me to be, my dear.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

Everyone is either happy or dead.

You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.

The two great constants of life. Food and death.

Better to exist in agony than to vanish entirely.

But he'd found that imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

It is strange," the man said. "People get such a small amount of time. So many I've known say it—as soon as you feel you're getting a handle on things, the day is done, the night falls, and the light goes out.

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing.

Imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.

I was not meant to be an atheist.

All things exist in three Realms, Gaotona. Physical, Cognitive, Spiritual. The Physical is what we feel, what is before us. The Cognitive is how an object is viewed and how it views itself. The Spiritual Realm contains an object's soul—its essence—as well as the ways it is connected to the things and people around it.

there was a God, if the Almighty was still out there somewhere, had he created Moash? Why? Why bring such a thing into the world?

Long ago, there was only One. One knew everything, but had experienced nothing. And so, One became many—us, people. The One, who is both male and female, did so to experience all things.

Doesn't that bother you?" Kaladin asked. "That you might be a creation of human perception?" "You're a creation of your parents. Who cares how we were born? I can think. That's good enough.

Don't mistake me," Jasnah continued. "Some kinds of power are real—power to command armies, power to Soulcast. These come into play far less often than you would think. On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.