Quotes About Existence

The funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know...We feel ever obliged by everyday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.

Most of us can't accept that the gig is ours, so we lurk around, we tug and scratch at ourselves as if in borrowed skins, and never fully belong to the moments that can steadily add up to nothing a lot quicker than you think.

you could only guess whether things were waxing or waning in this existence, and that the best we could ever do was commemorate any beauty.

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.

That is what we are. Death.

We can't leave this world without leaving a lot of detritus behind. We never go out as cleanly as we come in; and even when we come in, there's the afterbirth.

My ability to cast aside control, which is the key to good sex, had been pinched out of existence

Earth is the home of the living, not the dead.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"—Charles Baudelaire "The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy"—Ken Ammi

But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?

So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Dieu est le seul être qui, pour règner, n'a même pas besoin d'exister.

Even into a spiritual level I believe that there are dimensions around us that we can't see and forces happening that we can't explain. It's too lame to not think that.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.

Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

Cher can play Meryl's daughter, for all I'm concerned. Or her great-grandmother. She exists separate from time.

I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.

Belfast has many advantages for the filmmakers, one of which is the existence of an airport right in the middle of the city.

Life has no beginning, middle or end.