Quotes About Existence

Life and death are in constant battle. There is no way in this world for happiness to exist alone...

Gods, if they're neglected, tend to fall asleep, but they never really go away.

Norns keep the tree Yggdrassil alive. Without them, nothing would exist… They show up when you're born and decide what kind of life you're going to have. I guess they were in a rotten mood when I came along, Jack said. He loaded up the water bag and supplies. Me too, Thorgil said gravely.

But you have no religious faith. Richard had said, smiling, you're not even a believer. Jennifer hadn't tried to explain to him that religious belief was not the point. The will to believe created its own power, its own faith, and, ultimately, its own will. Through the practice of faith, whatever its specific rituals, one brought into existence the object of that faith. The believer became the Creator.

It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive? Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey...

But beauty is more, after all, than bones, for, while bones belong to death and endure after decay, beauty is a living thing.

ahí está el padre acurrucado casi para que yo encontrara vida y pudiera existir allí donde no estuvo (de La Cena)

Human existence, he believed, was a series of spiritual gradations through which man evolved to a higher state by virtue of his deeds.

He and Rafe were Light and Dark, Living and Undead. I was in this bizarre state where I felt like I hovered between the two states.

Put differently, the liberation of world markets, a process powered by the liberation of unprecedented amounts of fossil fuels from the earth, has dramatically sped up the same process that is liberating Arctic ice from existence.

She was safe for another moment, one more moment, and all of life was only moments, after all.

And I know nobody gets to live or not live because they deserve it, deserving doesn't count for a thing, but the point was, I now felt deep in my heart that I was in fact a better human being than Magnus or Todd, and hooray, all the prizes for me, but that wasn't helpful when what I actually needed was reasons why I shouldn't just wipe them out of existence.

More or less, I informed the eldritch horror it had no business existing with so much aggression, that I shoved it entirely out of reality.

incomprehensible machinery working somewhere out of sight, keeping us all alive, suspended out of the world.

People do not die./ They die/ And then they stay.

And yet, mighty as Time is, priceless in comparison to all else in the world, Time is the freest thing in existence. Perhaps that is why so many fail to grasp it with earnestness and with enthusiasm? Perhaps that is why so few realize its presence and let it pass on?

Maybe the morning sun is a five-cent yellow balloon, And the evening stars the joke of a God gone crazy. Maybe the mothers of the world, And the life that pours from their torsal folds— Maybe it's all a lie sworn by liars, And a God with a cackling laughter says: "I, the Almighty God, I have made all this, I have made it for kaisers, czars and kings.

If the Lord should come He'd change you to nothing for there's nothing to you.

Shall the squid have praise or blame for being a squid? Shall the bird have compliments for being born with wings?

There is thus more Neanderthal DNA on Earth today than when Neanderthals existed.

We have the technology right now to effectively eradicate Huntington's disease from the planet, along with many other genetic disorders. But the messy realities of human existence--of economics, emotions, politics, and the rest--override the technological possibilities.

Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything.

The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.