Quotes About Existence

I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.

The End of every maker is himself.

It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed from all eternity than to conceive a Being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

We are not certain, we are never certain.

There is one thing certain, namely, that we can have nothing certain; therefore it is not certain that we can have nothing certain.

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Is life worth living? That depends on the liver.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk ... it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

To do is to be.

To be is to do.

The way to do is to be.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.