Quotes About Existence

Fear keeps you alive. Fear reminds you that you are alive.

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist" ? Gena Showalter, Seduce the Darkness

Living shouldn't be synonymous with surviving.

Emotions. A waste of energy in Zacharel's estimation. You lived, you warred and one day you died. Anything else was unnecessary.

I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death.

while there may have been gods, they weren't particularly well defined. If, for instance, something unusually lucky happened, one might declare that a god--pick one--was feeling generous that day. And if a particularly bad thing happened, a god (usually a different one) was upset about something or other. Gods, in other words, were what most of us would now call chance or luck. And in that sense they served their purpose, by making a random existence seem less random.

He is not actually far from each one of us, for 'in him we live and move and have our being'" (Acts 17:25, 27-28).

Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it.

Time is the fire in which we burn. Gene Roddenberry

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.

Fire existed only for a moment, remade with every passing second, constantly replaced by newly-created flames. While the burning materials might be of this world and contaminated by chaos, the actual tongues of fire were untouched. They were free from corruption as they winked in and out of existence.

Oh, I admit that not all stories have happy endings, but people prefer what they're used to. If you were to actually ask them, nine out of ten would prefer a storybook existence to a mechanistic universe where happy endings never happen.

was the fear of death and everything that went with it in this place:

During my sorrowful outburst, my mother had remained entirely impassive. But then why not? Was she not mad? Nay, she was not. She had successfully discarded, as I also wished to do, the arduous yoke of a troublesome existence and had escaped to a tranquil haven somewhere beyond the reach of our world.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge your existence.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so?And if love is, what thing and which is he?If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo?

What is this world? what asketh men to have?Now with his love, now in his colde graveAllone, withouten any compaignye.

ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time.

Yet despite appearances, the interstate system is in fact a quintessential fractal when viewed through the lens of the actual traffic flowing on it, rather than when viewed simply as a physical road network. The traffic flow is the very essence of the interstate and is the fundamental reason for its existence.

Most of them don't mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He's indulgent.

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues.