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Quotes About Existence

The limitless content of our universe might be only one instance of a large (and possibly infinite) number of other universes.
~ Seth Shostak
Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?
~ James Rosenquist
'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
~ Michael Sheen
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
~ Milan Kundera
God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.
~ Adoniram Judson
Everybody fears the unknown. But I have a strong feeling there's something bigger than us. I don't think all this exists because some rocks happened to collide. I'm at peace. When it comes, I'll be fine, calm. I'll miss life, though. Especially my family.
~ Roger Ailes
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
~ Helena Blavatsky
We are the shadow of Sirius. There is the other side of - as we talk to each other, we see the light, and we see these faces, but we know that behind that, there's the other side, which we never know. And that - it's the dark, the unknown side that guides us, and that is part of our lives all the time. It's the mystery.
~ W. S. Merwin
I'm a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.
~ Nathan Phillips
I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
~ Shane Carruth
Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract.
~ Richard Linklater
I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.
~ Jenova Chen
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
~ Alan Watts
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
~ Aristotle
I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.
~ Alan Bates
It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.
~ Karl Kraus
The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.
~ Brennan Manning
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
~ Isadora Duncan
Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
~ Kate Atkinson
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.
~ Helen Rowland
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.
~ Audre Lorde
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
~ Charles Bukowski, Women
Yes, life is a woman!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche