Quotes About Existence

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Devil and God – two sides of the same face.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.

What we have to be is what we are.

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

We are spirits clad in veils.

God experiences Life through each of us, and we experience Life thanks to God.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

He has existed only, not lived, who lacks wisdom in old age.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.