Quotes About Existence

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap.

Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.

I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'

You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.

I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

If you are truly wise, you love life very deeply. You love the things in your life, transient though they may be.

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space.

The universe is perfection. But there are different views that universe provides for itself to view itself. Beyond all views there is nirvana.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.