Quotes About Existence

began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

The cosmic perspective opens our eyes to the universe, not as a benevolent cradle designed to nurture life but as a cold, lonely, hazardous place, forcing us to reassess the value of all humans to one another.

Astrophysics teaches us that we're not the center of the world.

The cosmic perspective enables us to grasp, in the same thought, the large and the small, from a universe that began in a space far tinier than the period at the end of this sentence to one that is now many billions of light-years across.

The cosmic perspective helps us to see beyond our circumstances, allowing us to realize that life is about more than money, popularity, clothes, sports, or even grades.

The cosmic perspective shows us that the very atoms and particles that make up our bodies are spread across the universe itself, making us one and the same.

I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being

And yes, every one of our body's atoms is traceable to the big bang and to the thermonuclear furnaces within high-mass stars that exploded more than five billion years ago.

The Universe is blind to our sorrows and indifferent to our pains. Have a nice day!

The four most common, chemically active elements in the universe—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen—are the four most common elements of life on Earth

Tutti noi, a un certo punto, abbiamo alzato gli occhi al cielo di notte e ci siamo chiesti: che significa tutto questo? Come funziona? E qual è il mio posto nell'Universo

Siamo polvere di stelle diventata vita [...].

Objective truths apply to all people, places, and things, as well as all animals, vegetables, and minerals. Some of these truths apply across all of space and time. They are true even when you don't believe in them.

We are stardust brought to life

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines…every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature.

We're only immortal for a limited time.

Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus would have none for anyone or anything else?

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

Whenever people idealize their caretakers, chances are pretty good that the opposite is true. Sometimes illusion is created by the parents, who insists in godlike fashion that they're perfect and that the child owes them obedience because they're responsible for his or her existence. Other times the illusion is created by the child as a survival strategy, disconnecting from reality in order to avoid the pain of growing up in a toxic enviroment.

She expressed shock at my many injuries and scars. I kissed this little-ass, adorable-ass stripper mothafucka tenderly and said, "I'm not an insane maniac. I'm a poser insane maniac. I'm just dealing with the absurdity of existence by shoving absurdity down existence's throat." She

For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; for these are in opposition to one another" (Gal. 5:17). They are in opposition because the Holy Spirit, like Jesus, will not operate independently of our heavenly Father, but the flesh does. The flesh may be defined as existence apart from God—a life dominated by sin or a drive opposed to God. The flesh is self-reliant rather than God-dependent; it is self-centered rather than Christ-centered.