Quotes About Existence

If we have less time alive than the time we have lived, shouldn't it all be comfort food?

How close the past looms, circling the present like a dead moon, lifting slow repetitious tides on the living planet.

Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone

Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?

Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?

We are the sum of our lives and not simply pieces of them. We are the whole of our time in this world.

There was a madness in the scheme of life that men were forced to accept either with resigned fury or blunt indifference.

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for

past, it's so now, and I would be willing to bet it'll be so forever.

Life is for the living, and the living have an obligation to carry on.

seen into existence. Magic is invisible until applied. It is hidden within you. To bring it alive requires mastery, so that you can shape it as you want.

If you want to worry about something, I don't think it should be about whether you owe your existence to God or the Word or whoever. I think you should worry about what's expected of you now that you're here and how you're going to keep from being a major disappointment.

The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to the dream-like quality of our lives, their brevity, mutability and lack of solid grounds. As such, by reminding us of our mortality, it can foster in us the virtue of humility.

It is conceivable that not knowing the meaning of life is part of the meaning of life, rather as not counting how many words I am uttering when I give an after-dinner speech helps me to give an after-dinner speech. Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism for Karl Marx

To be outside any situation whatsoever is known as being dead.

It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition.

But if we are not given his real name, then he does not have one.

What Nietzsche recognises is that you can get rid of God only if you also do away with innate meaning. The Almighty can survive tragedy, but not absurdity.

To call ourselves historical beings is to say that we are constitutively capable of self-transcendence, becoming at one with ourselves only in death.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person. We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

Wizard's Ninth Rule A contradiction can not exist in reality. Not in part, nor in whole.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.