Quotes About Existence

To be alone, and without gods, this—this it is, is Death," Hölderlin puts into Empedocles's mouth in the play and maybe in this we can trace the first whisper of the gigantic tragedy that Nietzsche would articulate in the death of God.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it's still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.

In what world are you living?" "The one you're in, of course.

I still believe that to develop good character a person needs to experience many difficulties before turning thirty. People need to go down into the crucible of despair at the bottom of human existence and experience what that is like. People need to discover new possibilities in the midst of hell. It is only when climbing out of the depths of despair and making a new determination that we can be reborn as people able to pioneer a new future.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

if you are not a myth whose reality are you? If you are not a reality whose myth are you?

The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

I know what life is. This is not life. This is death disguised as life.

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

Unlike the human spirit which is drawn from the infinite Spirit of God, the human soul is truly a new thing, coming into existence at the moment when God joins matter (earth) with His essence (spirit). This happens in the womb at the time of conception. From The Quiet Heart

It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence.

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....

Still in the black hemisphere the stars blazed and slowly wheeled; beneath them, Will felt so infinitesimally small that it seemed impossible he should even exist. Immensity pressed in on him, terrifying, threatening--and then, in a swift flash of movement like a dance, like the glint of a leaping fish, came a flick of brightness in the sky from a shooting star... He heard Bran give a small chirrup of delight, a spark struck from the same bright sudden joy that filled his own being.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

The emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of the subcontinent of India.

In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

I like to make films with characters that resemble real people, about societies that exist.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.

The justice system is a foundation of our existence as a democratic society. I will not be the one to soften its bite. But I will also not allow it to eat away at the legal authority of the legislative and executive branches. We must find the formula for the right balance between the branches.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.