Quotes About Existence

there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

If a dream is as strong as a feeling, is it just as real?

That threshold lying at the entrance to each man's and woman's life, I knew without equivocation now, must be recognized and genuflected before.

That would be all nice and simple, wouldn't it? Be good and go to heaven; be bad and go to hell. Black and white. Rules to live by, to keep everybody civilized. But life isn't simple, so I don't know why we expect death to be. What there is . . . is continued existence. Complex, multilayered, and unique to every individual. Just like life is.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Dubito ergo sum - I doubt therefore I am

Who is this ghost ordered into music?

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Living is hard; Death is easy. And there are no answers on either side.

Without proof of an afterlife, they were intimately aware of their mortality and the limitations of it.

All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one…" The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)

The knowledge that they existed, those phantoms that forever haunted the corner of the eye, was a form of haunting in itself.

Some of the time it feels as if we're just here to bear witness to the acts of monsters. To validate their efforts by seeing what they've done.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

Life is too meaningful to die.

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not exist and the one who exists I do not see.

The question is how the questioner exists.

The world exists to let Man philosophize.