Quotes About Existence

You can't love anyone or anything until you love your own existence first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.

Such beliefs were born in man's willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.

He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.

Like all power, it simply exists. It's the user who determines what use it will be put to.

Life was not fair, it simply existed. If you accidentally stepped on a poison snake, you got bitten. Intentions were irrelevant.

How can you be alive, now, if you were dead?" "Well, death isn't what it used to be.

The power is neither evil not good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

But who I was, who you loved, no longer exists. I have passed on. In your world, only my memory can exist. Your loyalty to me because of that memory is a part of life, but it can become disloyalty to yourself if you hold it so closely that it crowds out the rest of life.

To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else's. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

The power is neither evil nor good; it simply exists. It is up to the mind of man to put it to use.

Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

The reason, as I had learned from my father, is that there is no certainty in death. Because there is no beginning or end, there is no way to measure how long your time.

there was no saving the world. the world was going to do what the world was doing [sic] to do.

We all have to die, Johnrock—every one of us. It is how we choose to live that matters. After all, it's the only life each one of us will ever have, so how we live is of paramount importance.

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. Between those thoughts, there is nothing, simply the body, waiting for our thoughts to make us who we are.

Does death invalidate life? No, it defines it, and in so doing creates its value.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.