Quotes About Existence

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking

On paper, did she and Mama even exist? And what if he found them anyway?

She hadn't known until now how love could erupt into existence like the big bang theory and change everything in you and everything in the world.

I finally learned that life is not made up of BIG moments and sudden epiphanies, but rather of tiny bits of time, some so small they pass by unnoticed.

Annie had made so many mistakes, and most of them had been because she'd planted herself firmly in the middle of the road. But now she knew that life without risk was impossible, and if by chance you stumbled across a safe, serene existence, it was because you'd never really reached for anything in the first place.

A life, not merely existence. That was her dream.

Consciousness brought pain.

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave.

A?k her ?eyin ba?lang?c? ve sonuydu. Hayat?n temeliydi, tavan?yd? ve ikisinin aras?ndaki havayd?.

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing. It is quite beyond me, in fact, why she became a librarian in the first place.

Yes. There is one God, and he lives in the sky, and he hears all of us. It is just that here on earth, we are confused about how to believe in him. But what does it matter, as long as we trust he is there?

It occurs to me how mundane this moment would be if this was really the life I was living.

She doesn't understand what it means to love books so passionately that you would die without them, that you would simply stop breathing, stop existing.

Arrête de pleurer. Ne sais-tu pas que tes larmes vont se changer en pluie, que la vapeur sortant de ta bouche va se changer en brume et que ton frère qui est mort ne pourra pas trouver son chemin vers sa future existence ?

Unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." —PHILIP K. DICK

Dawn. Damn. The universe becomes invisible for another day.

I had to wonder: Were the mutants the price we paid for the Marvels? The negatives without which the pictures we wanted couldn't exist?

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

All In All Is All We Are

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which we truly know of it. Since that part which conceptually we know fully turns out to be so beautiful, the real world of which we know so little should also be beautiful. Life may be miserable for seventy years and happy for a million years: the short period of misery may even be necessary for the whole.

Time-travel is possible, but no person will ever manage to kill his past self. Godel laughed his laugh then, and concluded, The a priori is greatly neglected. Logic is very powerful.

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.