Quotes About Existence

Life is a goddam mess...but you wouldn't want to miss it!

'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment.

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.

...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

I am life which wants to live admidst of lives that want to live.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.