Quotes About Existence

When I was 19 and I had lots of hope. Now, of course, I have none whatever. One wouldn't. One doesn't. I have a hope for a painless death. That's all that bothers me. Paul Bowles to Richard de Combray

alone in his struggle to bring the truth to its people. He consoled himself by recalling that it is only in each man's own consciousness that the isolation exists; objectively man is always a part of something.

Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.

God is neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral, he is unmoral;

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

Between always and never

Ein Nichts waren wir, sind wir, werden wir bleiben, blühend. die Nichts-, die Niemandsrose.

Threadsuns above the grayblack wastes. A tree- high thought grasps the light-tone: there are still songs to sing beyond mankind.

Le temps est le péché de l'éternité.

Atheist's denial of God's existence needs just as much substantiation as does the theist's claim; the atheist must give plausible reasons for rejecting God's existence.

Notice how atheists who believe in real right and wrong make a massive intellectual leap of faith. They believe that somehow moral facts were eternally part of the "furniture" of reality but that from impersonal and valueless slime, human persons possessing rights, dignity, worth, and duties were eventually produced.

William Lane Craig, he wrote an essay titled "Dawkins's Delusion," which responds to Dawkins's book The God Delusion. Craig does his best to piece together Dawkins's argument against God's existence, which is really "embarrassingly weak.

We come to life in the middle of stories that are not ours.

No humans have ever lived as we do.

History is happening here and now.

None of us is going to get out of this world alive.

God I have been - God I am. But quite frankly, sometimes it is all just a little too much for one small cat.

Nothing is something. In fact, out of nothingness flows all somethings. (Goodbye Phone)

Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?

Hands, teeth, gut, thoughts even, were all simply more or less convenient to human circumstance, as my father was receding from human circumstance, so, too, were all of these particulars, back to some unknowable froth where they might be reassigned to be stars or belt buckles, lunar dust or railroad spikes. Perhaps they already were all of these things and my father's fading was because he realized this: My goodness, I am made from planets and wood, diamonds and orange peels ...

The one First or Primary Cause is God. God is First; He has no cause or causes of Himself; He is un produced; He is not an effect.

I've always been a big fan of being alive.

Flower in the Crannied Wall Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.