Quotes About Existence

We are a mirror to show god it's cruelty.

Is a thing most fully itself in the darkness or the light?

If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

Let me once again give you the principle I offered in chapter 2: If there is no God, there are no values; if there are no values, there is no meaning; and if there is no meaning, you are a turnip and will simply live for a while, die, and then go back to the soil from which you came.

You believe that you live in the universe when in reality the universe lives in you

I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the poem written in the head of someone who may never have existed but who had certainly written another poem nonetheless, and just never had the chance to commit it to ink and the page.

The Movies have always been here. The Movies were here before God. Time is round like a reel of film. God hates the Movies because the Movies are the evidence of what He's done.

I looked out my window onto the street, the same street, the same buildings I always see, the windows that stare back at my own; and it was different. The moment was a different moment, of a different now. What I saw from my window was the other Twentieth Century rolling on by my own, like the other branch of a river that's been forked by an island long and narrow and knifelike: the same river but flowing by different shorelines and banks.

We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.

T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

A world with zombies in it had no tolerance for softness or sentiment. The dreadfuls infected everything just by virtue of existing. To live in their world, one had to become like them. Dead inside. So

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."

Your agreement with reality defines your life."

Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.

The purpose of your existence is yours alone to discover.

Childhood disappears down a storm drain. It flows, then trickles, then vanishes, leaving some olfactory memory—of new tennis balls, Sunday-morning bacon, a chemical cloud of Glade—to prove it ever existed. It seldom ends on a sixteenth birthday or an eighteenth birthday or some other calendar date, and rarer still is it stamped with a time of death. But sometimes it is.

Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter because it has always been in matter. Consciousness is a fundamental quality that exists everywhere and in everything.

The goal of human life is to realize this oneness, and so to transcend separation, fear and even death.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

He was neither asleep nor awake, neither this nor that. It was some new state that he was in, some new kind of nonexistence.