Quotes About Existence

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

What would it be like without Him?

God being dead, irony still rollickingly alive...

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

The question 'What was there before creation?' is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.

You love life because life's all there is.

Hell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.....

Then it's decided. In the end, we are just as mortal as man. But while God will save a few, we will corrupt and destroy the rest of them. That is the best way to hurt Him. While many worship what you represent, most will come to believe that the existence of God is a myth." The woman spoke up. "But if they think He is a myth, won't they think that you don't exist either?" The Chairman smiled broadly this time. "Exactly.

Physicists say we are made of stardust. Intergalactic debris and far-flung atoms, shards of carbon nanomatter rounded up by gravity to circle the sun. As atoms pass through an eternal revolving door of possible form, energy and mass dance in fluid relationship. We are stardust, we are man, we are thought. We are story.

History shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent.

In the beginning there was nothing, and then God created light. There was still nothing but you could see it a lot better.

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

I believe love never dies. It's the sole reason why we're all here. To create love and to nurture it.

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie's novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots. Religion may be a flower, but people are its roots.

Roots can exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

Roots cannot exist without flowers, but no flower can exist without roots.

Death is the price you paid for being born.

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

A predilection for wrong is not characteristic of our nature, it is a characteristic of the nature of life itself.

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.