Quotes About Existence

quiere vivir algo que se parezca a una experiencia extraordinaria, una batalla, una historia de amor, una aventura límite, un crimen incluso. Cielo o infierno, qué importa, pero un gran drama que lo saque de esta vida sin porvenir y que justifique su existencia. Entonces sí podría dormir plácidamente sobre sus laureles, o sobre sus espinas, sabiendo que ha vivido.

WE ARE BORN IN THE WILDS OF DARKNESS AND DIE ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

I don't have a body, I am a body.

Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.

Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually nonconformist as existing in a state of incurable mortal sin that can incidentally cause floods and earthquakes.

Once we assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects of a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well.

I am so made that I cannot believe.

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body.

as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In other words, the process both etiolates you and moves you nearer toward death. How could it be otherwise?

Montaigne: "Religion's surest foundation is the contempt for life.

Question: "What do you most value in your friends? Answer: Their continued existence.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, not something you do.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not.

To all of us the thought of heaven is dear— Why not be sure of it and make it here? No doubt there is a heaven yonder too, But 'tis so far away—and you are near.   Men talk of heaven,—there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell,—there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk, and future lives,— O love, there is no other life—but here.

Either one attributes one's presence here to the laws of biology and physics, or one attributes it to a divine design.

It is the fantastic realization of the human essence because the human essence has no true reality.

we are all stardust, or nuclear waste depending on your analysis

Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward.

From a plurality of prime movers, the monotheists have bargained it down to a single one. They are getting ever nearer to the true, round figure.

To the dumb question Why me? the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

The pluralism of religion is attributable to the fact that man created God and not the other way around. If you accept the posture that man makes gods, there is no mystery in the proliferation of gods and religions that has always existed in human society. If

I asked him if the thought of annihilation never gave him any uneasiness. He said not the least; no more than the thought that he had not been, as Lucretius observes.