Quotes About Existence

Life is less a miracle than a necessity for matter and energy

Existence, it seems, is chiefly maintenance.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality

if you never know sorrow then you will never know love and if you never know death then you never know life.

It never ceased to cause him wonder, that here had been a living person and now she was gone, fading away again, the city waking up without her as if she'd never been there. It was an incredible thing, beyond comprehension, as incredible as being there in the first place.

Children are not guaranteed the luxuries of family, Ms. Wells," he said. "If people are unable to exist within the parameters that have been created for them, they lose any claim to titles like son and daughter.

He said being dead was a little like living, only longer.

It's death there is no cure for-- life the long disease. If we're lucky. Otherwise, short trip beyond. And below.

It's hard being human.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

And all the mumbo-jumbo of reincarnation. Man into ox into ape into beetle into eight million four hundred thousand kinds of animate things. Proof? We do not go in for such pedestrian pastimes as proof! That is Western. We are of the mysterious East. No proof, just faith. No reason, just faith.

Yahan khuda hai, wahan khuda hai... idhar khuda hai, udhar khuda hai... jahan nahin khuda hain, wahan kal khudega... Contributed

the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.

She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

They would no longer be time-bound, that they were free to live in the future, the past, in fantasy. She had been a woman preparing to live, not living.

Will once said each galaxy has about a hundred billion stars. He said that ninety-eight percent of what exists around us we can't even see. Sometimes I let go and float out there, staring back at earth. I lose track of time. Will told me to forget time, that it was relative. He said light was the thing. At the speed of light, time stands still. It's the wild card. It makes things happen. (The Speed of Light)

Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.' 'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.

Because there's always a reason for everything, isn't there? Because if there isn't a reason for even one thing, like how you can get sick, or your husband stop loving you, or people you love die—then there's no reason for anything. So there must be reasons.

And each one swam in the ocean of herself and her world for her whole life.

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live.

Entre as vidas que vivemos e as vidas que desejamos viver fica o lugar em nossas mentes onde a maioria de nós realmente vive.