Quotes About Existence

Nothing has been venerable or revered merely because it exists or has endured.

Or is it the other way around—are they supposed to serve us? Let us resolve to ask that far-reaching question again: For whom does America exist? This time around, there can be only one possible answer.

Birth is the beginning of death

Logically, such a nonoccurrence is just as much an event as an occurrence, but phenomenologically it is not.

Reality has a way of summoning the shadows," I tell him. Fareem laughs his worldly laugh. "Is that the

Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might Which fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.

I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don't you think so?

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

Fear and I were born twins together.

The disembodied spirit is immortal there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is 'body' and that which is not 'body' is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action.

Being natural means to exist spontaneously without having to take any action. . . . By taking no action is not meant folding one's arms and closing one's mouth. If we simply let everything act by itself, it will be contented with its nature and destiny. (12)

It is easier to be tranquil about existence when you recognize the pointlessness of solemnity.

the ignorant and the simple minded, not knowing that the world is what is seen of Mind itself, cling to the multitudinousness of external objects, cling to the notions of being and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and not-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity. . .

the things of this world are all a mental creation, since external phenomena are transient and only exist for us because of our perception. Consequently they are actually "created" by our mind (or, if you will, a more universal entity called Mind). Consequently they do not exist outside our mind and hence are a void. Yet the mind itself, which is the only thing real, is also a void since its thoughts cannot be located by the five senses.

Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.