Quotes About Existence

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

The subject of bisexuality really needs much more discussion. It's a status that does exist.

The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

Just being alive, staying human, I think that's infinitely precious.

I am just working on staying alive.

I don't want to be remembered, because I'm not planning on going. I'm staying!

Time stays, we go.

I believe that when we die, we die - but I believe people's energy stays behind.

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

The fact that evil exists in the world bothers me. I think that people do terrible things for ideological or political reasons. I think that evil stems from ideology. People are taught to hate.

For us as Asian-Americans, I think the bane of our existence is one stereotype - 'Sixteen Candles,' the Long Duk Dong character.