Quotes About Existence

I have seen galaxies die. I have watched atoms dance. But until I had the dark behind the eyes, I didn't know the death from the dance.

You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and sieve it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet, you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some, some rightness in the universe, by which it may be judged.

The universe required everything to be observed, lest it cease to exist.

The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn't really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long.

And visitors say: how does such a big city exist? What keeps it going? Since it's got a river you can chew, where does the drinking water come from? What is, in fact, the basis of its civic economy? How come it, against all probability, works ? Actually, visitors don't often say this. They usually say things like, Which way to the, you know, the...er...you know, the young ladies, right?

there's times when you look at the universe and you think 'What about me?' and you can just hear the universe replying, 'Well, what about you?

Men come and go, but dust accumulates.

Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.

The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

GENERALLY PEOPLE LIKE TO MOVE ON, Death hinted. THEY LOOK FORWARD TO AN AFTERLIFE. "I Will Stay Here, Please." HERE? THERE'S NOTHING TO DO HERE, said Death. "Yes, I Know," said the ghost of the golem. "It Is Perfect. I Am Free.

One said, Tell us…what is it like? "What is what like?" One said, Being insane. Being human.

And he goes around killing people?" said Mort. He shook his head. "There's no justice." Death sighed. No, he said... there's just me.

Imagine every moment being at one and the same time a distant memory and a nasty surprise and you'll see what I mean.

Wizards don't believe in gods. They didn't deny their existence, of course. They just didn't believe. It was nothing personal; they weren't actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up.

The Universe contains everything and nothing. There is very little everything. And more nothing than you can possibly imagine.

I must always remember what's real.

People were good at imagining hells, and some they occupied while they were alive.

Where's my daddy? Is that my daddy? It goes, I fink, derefore I am. I fink. It is Sergeant Detritus the troll! That's not my daddy!

The UU Professor of Anthropics had developed the Special and Inevitable Anthropic Principle, which was that the entire reason for the existence of the universe was the eventual evolution of the UU Professor of Anthropics. But this was only a formal statement of the theory which absolutely everyone, with only some minor details of a "Fill in name here" nature, secretly believes to be true.

But right now, as for my own philosophy, there is a quotation that rather sums it up: "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

After all it was only wood. It'd rot in a few hundred years. By the measure of infinity, it hardly existed at all. On average, considered over the lifetime of the multiverse, most things didn't

He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training.

It's a metaphor of human bloody existence, a dragon. And if that wasn't bad enough, it's also a bloody great hot flying thing.

There is a blissful period of existence which the Yen Buddhists* call plinki. It is defined quite precisely as that interval between waking up and being hit on the back of the head by all the problems that kept you awake the night before; it ends when you realize that this was the morning everything was going to look better in, and it doesn't.