Quotes About Existence

Each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else and this game is life.

Guilt is the unlived life.

The runner is coming to know, or will know if he runs enough...that the universe is the smallest divisible unit.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

Man has emerged from dust of stars to contemplate the universe around him.

The religious concept of creation flows from a sense of wonder at the existence of the universe and our place in it. The scientific concept of creation encompasses no less a sense of wonder.

The truth and treasure of the universe is its own existence, and our quest for that truth and treasure will be eternal, like the universe itself.

The more we know about the history of the universe, the more we know about ourselves and the questions we are driven to ask.

I am, therefore I write.

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

For me, it feels as if Black embodied existence is in a constant and unrelenting state of trauma.

The verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

Well, as I was saying, the world is eaten up by boredom. To perceive this needs a little preliminary thought: you can't see it all at once. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands. To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be forever on the go. And so, people are always "on the go.

It is like dust.  You go about and never notice, you breathe it in, you eat and drink it.  It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth.  But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands.  To shake off this drizzle of ashes you must be forever on the go.  And so people are always 'on the go'.