Quotes About Existence

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.

All that is not God is death.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

England was a menace to Scotland because Scotland was, by its separate existence, a constant anxiety to England.

Without the story - in which everyone living, unborn, and dead, participates - men are no more than 'bits of paper blown on the cold wind . . .

My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed T. S. Eliot 'The Waste Land

I know that no one would live outThirty years, fifty years if the world were endingWith his life.

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

Among days// Having only the force/ Of days//Most simple/ Most difficult

There are things We live among 'and to see them Is to know ourselves'.

A poetry of the meaning of words And a bond with the universe I think there is no light in the world but the world And I think there is light

I think always about the thing in which we are. Among the things in it is force, power. It is not enough to say that we like it or that we do not like it. It is here, we must first talk about it. We are not shoppers—or we are not first of all shoppers; it is not enough to say that we like or we do not like—

Once the singing was and is

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Sein Egoismus war eine rationale Reaktion auf die Wirklichkeit, in der er lebte.

Both rocketry and magic were rebellions against the very limits of human existence; in striving for one challenge he could not help but strive for the other.

All too often Christians look at morality from the negative viewpoint. Christian growth does not come from what we don't do. It is rather a product of what we actively do in our daily lives. The Christian ethic is a positive ethic, and the Christian life, as an expression of that ethic, is a positive, active existence.

If man, as the existentialist conceives him, is indefinable, it is because at first he is nothing. Only afterward will he be something, and he himself will have made what he will be. Thus, there is no human nature, since there is no God to conceive it. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of existentialism.

Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark

Because I've never died, I am immortal.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.

We're all just songs in the end. If we are lucky.