Quotes About Existence

Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

If your war is for your existence, fight it right to the end!

We condemn the view that the (U.S.-led) occupation's existence is beneficial for the Iraqi people because if it ended, there would be sectarian war - as if sectarian war has not already begun.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Christ! What are patterns for?

Before the war, she'd never have gone out in the rain and happily stood in it. Now, it was a reminder that she was alive...

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Sometimes I feel I am everything, I call that Love. Sometimes I feel I am nothing, I call that Wisdom. Between Love and Wisdom my life continuously flows.

Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator.

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.