Quotes About Existence

I'm kind of a morbid person. I'm very optimistic, but I also feel like I'm going to die at any moment. I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not.

We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

I've had such an ordinary life.

Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.

I'm predisposed to believe we live in a complicated, enmeshed reality. There's no authentic or organic.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

Most marketers think there's a concept called a product life cycle. Once you realize that the world is organized by jobs that need to be done, you understand that product life cycles don't exist.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

Hopefully when you see the movie, Maybe you don't have the Orlando in your life, but you know that guy. He goes to church. He's down the street. He's one of the boys at the schoolyard. They exist.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that's as bottom-line as you can get.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.