Quotes About Existence

I'm of the opinion that it flies in the face of reason not to believe. The odds are too great against you to not believe that there is some sort of extraterrestrial life out there.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

When I go to a cinema, I don't care if the film is made by a man or a woman as long as it tells me a story, as long as it offers pictures that shed light on my existence, characters I can identify with, jokes I can laugh at.

Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind - hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass - if it did.

At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

Having an identity is one thing. Being born into an identity is quite a different matter.

I only live one time.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

There isn't a way to depict the gay community without at least mentioning the existence of online dating apps like Grindr.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry into the flows of existence can be seen as a beginning, a commencement of a brand new way of seeing oneself in the world. This is the case for everyone.

It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don't know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I'm still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.

The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.

there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering ? curious as it may sound to you ? is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity.

Vivere è la cosa più rara nel mondo. Molta gente esiste: ecco tutto.

Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent