Quotes About Existence

It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the coalescing of the planets around the sun. If you wish to call that God, go ahead.

Me? I'm nothing. I'm a fart in the air conditioning. I'm always there, but most of the time nobody knows it.

Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak.

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

It only works because of what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.

He was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person.

it only works because what's between you, that's real, that's what matters. Billions of those connections between human beings. That's what you're fighting to keep alive.

How suddenly we find the flesh of God within us after all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

I am old enough now to have all the memories of my people locked within my head. I remember things that happened long before I was born. I remember things that never happened at all. I live in memory. –Anton

How quickly we find the flesh of God within us all, when we thought that we were only made of dust.

Life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

True implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not.

Nothing that actually happens is likely until it exists, and then it's certain. You exist.

All the universe is just a dream in God's mind, and as long as he's asleep, he believes in it, and things stay real. What you see is God waking up, gradually waking up, and his wakefulness sweeps through the dream, undoes the universe, until finally he sits up, rubs his eyes, and says, My, what a dream, I wish I could remember what it was, and in that moment we'll all be gone.

I'm a mammal," said Bean. "I try to live forever whether I actually want to or not.

But the sky only seems to be far away from you,' said Master Han, when she told him this. 'Actually it is all around you. You breathe it in and you breathe it out, even when you labor with your hands in the mud.

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes.

That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses. - Alai pg.216

I don't think any word can explain a man's life.