Quotes About Existence

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

The clock stands still yet time does not. Even as he lies here he can feel time at work on him like a wasting disease, like the quicklime they pour on corpses. Time is gnawing away at him, devouring one by one the cells that make him up. His cells are going out like lights.

Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.

Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.

It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the divisions and not at all in the recognition of those errors when once they exist.

Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt.

All of which makes up a story I do not choose to tell. I choose not to tell it because to no one, not even to you, do I own proof that I am a substantial being with a substantial history in the world.

Those into whose lives you are born do not pass away. Slow Man

Technically speaking, there are people in Nebraska. live been there. l met both of them.

Delenn: The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff.

Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.

Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time.

Life and death oppose each other, yes, but it is only in their opposition that either can exist at all. There is no death without life, and no life without death.

I won't be the first man to spend his life barely alive, he told himself. Men did it. It was no great feat. He would live--he'd live a few scant miles from the heart of life, on its chill periphery. That suited him after all.

There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

Life, she remembered, had to be lived, even - and maybe particularly - in the middle of death

Santa exists in the hearts of all true believers.

There are some who believe that without a level of quality, life is only pain.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us.

We begin to die with our first breath. Death is inside us, ticking closer, closer, with every beat of our heart. It is the end no man can escape. Yet we cling to life, we worship it despite its transience.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that makes us. We have to love, I think - as forthy as that sounds - we have to love to be fully alive, fully human.

They both knew evil not only existed, it flourished and grew fat, and it reveled in its pursuit of the weak and the innocent.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. THOMAS CARLYLE

So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE