Quotes About Existence

The glory of God is a human being fully alive. —Ireneaus1

Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

The real question is why is there "being"? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.

We can say the word "metaphysical," meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.

Why is there an "is"? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

What is human is immortal!

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.

Alive, ridiculous, and dead forgot?

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.