Quotes About Existence

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us;at the same time, look at any one of us in the vast space I am seeing out the window of this bus, which is a molecule on a cell on a flea on a hair on a wart of the known universe.

Everyone wants to believe in something that will make their mundane lives more bearable and their inevitable death less … final.

Without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

Do not dwell on the past, do not think about the future. Live in the present as if it was your last.

Knowing the precies answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist.

Knowing the precise answers is not as crucial as the certainty that the answers do, in fact, exist. All we really want to know is that the helm is not unmanned. That the advocates of goodness and glory are still in control. That righteousness reigns. That perfection awaits. That the Atonement is real and available.

Naturalism was never the point.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his obscurity. It is not aspiration, for it is devoid of hope. We cannot influence fate: we will all die and our individual beings will be obliterated. But we have a choice in how we live. A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

continually exposing myself to whatever situation occurs… Gambling as well as gamboling… To exist instead of being an existentialist, to make objects instead of being one

We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.

She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.

he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had never ceased to obsess him, was the moment of his own death.

From a Christian perspective, justice must have a real objective existence, because justice derives from God, and God exists apart form human speculation. Justice is real because God is real. But our capacity to know God's universal justice is unavoidably conditioned by the ways of looking at life and the world which we receive from the particular historical and religious traditions to which we belong. This is where the Bible comes in.

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

What do I know from dybbuks? I'm a dyed-in-the-wool atheist. The only people in the Lower East Side who know from dybbuks are rabbis. And they're all just gutless bourgeois reactionaries who want us to let the Morgaunts of the world stomp all over us so we can reap our reward in heaven or Brooklyn— neither of which, allow me to point out, has ever been scientifically proven to exist.

it occurred to him that time didn't move forward as he'd always thought. People move through time instead.

She seeks meaning in this, but it is simply that which is immeasurable.

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

This life we endure - how strange, yet how jolly

Conveniently then he can forget it all exists. And, after a time only a general notion will remain in his mind, that there are places where he doesn't belong, and those where he seems to fall right in.

I mean, if all we are is bundles of energy... what is a 'hug' anyway?... and how can we ever really touch each other?

But a man who values nothing is hardly alive at all.

The water around his legs was the only thing that seemed real.