Quotes About Existence

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

You've probably seen that any visible Palestinian-American woman who is at the forefront of any social-justice movement is an immediate target of the right wing and right-wing Zionists. They will go to any extreme to criminalize us and to engage in alternative facts, to sew together a narrative that does not exist.

I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

With tough interpretation of taxi and zoning regulations, neither Uber nor Airbnb would have gotten started. By the time many cities recognized their existence, both were fairly large and had the political support of their customers.

Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

It is right it should be so, Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go.

He who doesn't accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.