Quotes About Existence

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

Life is the ultimate right.

Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

The only ultimate power you have as a human being is over your choice to live or die. Everything else is chaos. If you try and think you have control over some of your life, essentially, that's the only real control you have, is whether you decide to exist.

Evolution isn't just a story about where we came from. It's an epic at the center of life itself. Far from robbing our lives of meaning, it instills an appreciation for the beautiful, enduring, and ultimately triumphant fabric of life that covers our planet. Understanding that doesn't demean human life - it enhances it.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.

It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years.

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist.

Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.