Quotes About Existence

watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder

world is terrible and wonderful at the same time.

Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again?

Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep. Absolutely nothing. Not even our bodies, our brains.

Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep. Absolutely nothing. Not even our bodies, our brains. This 'self' that we think we know so well, that we think of as us. It is only on loan. If a person comes into our life, they will go again. In a parting of ways, or because everyone dies. They will die or you will die. Nothing we receive in this life are we

God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.

I'm just a human, among billions of other humans, and I'm alive, and it's really hard being alive, and I don't want to admit it, because nobody around me is admitting it, and most of the time I don't know what I'm doing, and I'm scared.

Here's what I think about dying: I think it's not so much about being and then not being. I think it's more about where you are. Not whether you are.

My job was not to exist at all. Though too much alive to play it to perfection, I feel I performed a fairly adept imitation.

I have no idea why time does what it does. Or why people do what we do. It's all a mystery to me.

The value of your life is

When you've only ever had one child, and she's gone, are you still a mother? Maybe. But I don't even know.

Things don't wait for you to believe them. They happen. God is not Tinkerbell. He does what he does whether you clap your hands or hide behind the comfort of your disbelief. Besides, you know all this. You just forgot.

It was her life. I mean, a person's life. It's all you've got. It's everything. Without it, you're . . . well, you're not. You're literally not anything.

maybe that's redundant. Maybe that's the only kind of attorney there is.

Here's what I do. I say to my creator, 'I'm

Maybe everything deteriorates in time, and maybe that doesn't make it any less worth having while it lasts.

I think the world is just as terrible as beautiful and just as beautiful as terrible.

I had all these hours that added up to all these days, and I look back and it seems my goal was mostly to make them go away. But that's not a proper life. That's not really living.

You can't point to this joy, Jordy. You'd have to point everywhere at once. And if you point everywhere at once, then you're not really pointing anywhere at all." I

The core idea is that a thing is not a thing until it has an observer. And the observer seems to play a role in what kind of thing it will snap into being. But beyond that—no need to be so esoteric.

Not sure why happiness should ever seem

Being a person is just hard." "Why doesn't anybody say so, then?" "That's a good question.

Everyone, everywhere was having a life.