Quotes About Existence

Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone strangers.

The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity--even if theirs is an infinity that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities.

No son los mejores sitios del mundo, ¿verdad? Tienes que luchar para que sepan que estás ahí; si no, vives una vida de mera adecuación, que es lo peor que hay.

The growth of civilization was complete. Everyone knew it. When it came to the human race, there was no more left to learn. Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other. In fact, in the grand scheme of things, everyone was equally useless.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence.

There have always been, and will always be, those who exist on the fringe of reason

If a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

A thunderhead threatens. A thunderhead looms. Surely I spark with lightning, but my lightning never strikes. Yes, I possess the ability to wreak devastation on humanity, and on the Earth if I chose to, but why would I choose such a thing? Where would be the justice in that? I am, by definition, pure justice, pure loyalty. This world is a flower I hold in my palm. I would end my own existence rather than crush it.

I remember thinking, if a baby was going to be so unloved, why would God want it brought into the world?

What must it be like to go through the motions of life, yet not be alive? Keaton knows he himself lives, because he has compassion for this poor unfortunate creature before him. A creature that is doomed to be nothing more than a collection of parts.

I have come to realize that there are only two perfect acts. They are the two most important acts known to me, but I forbid myself to perform them, and leave them in the hands of humankind. They are the creation of life...and life's taking.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence. Only sad to us, however. Not to them.

a simple truth remains: People have to die.

Primordial ooze

but the more she read, the more she came to understand the fears and the dreams of mortals. The trouble they all had living in the moment, in spite of the fact that the moment was all they had.

He began to feel like a ghost in his own life, existing in a forced blind spot of the world.

There have always been, and will always be, those who exist on the fringe of reason, the Thunderhead told Greyson. They must be set straight early and often.

Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Nothing about our own existence to decipher. Which meant that no one person was more important than any other.

But if I do find it, and if I am able to travel to the very beginning of time, the ramifications are staggering. It could mean that I may very well be the Creator. I may, in fact, be God. How ironic, then, and how poetic, that humankind may have created the Creator out of want for one. Man creates God, who then creates man. Is that not the perfect circle of life? But then, if that turns out to be the case, who is created in whose image?

I feel bad for you," Citra said. "Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind the milk.

Nous sommes devenus contre nature à partir du moment où nous avons conquis la mort

I feel bad for you, said Citra. Even when you're food shopping, death is hiding right behind death. It never hides, the scythe told them with a world-weariness that was hard to describe. Nor does it sleep. You'll learn that soon enough.

Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true." Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery.