Quotes About Existence

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

The recipe for a human doesn't fill up a shopping list as you may suspect. Just twenty-two elements can describe almost all of the molecules that are, at this moment, you.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out, I know. I don't really want to be reincarnated.

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.

This is my life, and I want to live it and enjoy it if I can.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

It isn't just that I don't believe in God, and naturally, hope there is no God. I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God.

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Today I don't want to live for, I want to live.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

You dont live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have.

What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

At our core, we just want to know that we matter.