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Quotes About Existence

I'll get back to the main theme of the book: man's search for god in a pointless, violent universe.
~ Woody Allen
She taught me philosophy and I developed a crush on it. We read together and hired a student from Columbia to come in once a week and discuss a different great work. But the arguments we had over free will and monads, while heated, were never as combatative as the ones we had over our marriage. I knew I was in trouble when, in one philosophical discussion, Harlene proved I didn't exist. I
~ Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
~ Woody Allen
I am happy in my marriage. I am happy with my family but you can never be happy on this planet. We are dumped into a bad situation. Human existence is precarious, terrifying and pointless." Woody Allen, May 24, 2020.
~ Woody Allen
It was the real world I was coming in contact with, and though it's real for everyone, it's more real for some than others.
~ Woody Allen
Vesmír je pouhou prchavou pÃ…â"¢edstavou v Boží mysli - pÄ›knÄ› nepÃ…â"¢íjemné pomyÅ¡lení, zvláÅ¡tÄ› když ?lovÄ›k právÄ› složil zálohu na byt. V??ná nicota nevadí, pokud jste na to oble?eni. Kdyby jen Dionýsos z?stal naživu! Kam by se chodil najíst? Nejen, že neexistuje žádný B?h, ale zkuste sehnat o víkendu instalatéra.
~ Woody Allen
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind – a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
~ Woody Allen
At the heart of living life according to the wisdom of the I Ching is the knowledge that the Universe is alive and aware- aware of itself and aware of you. It may seem strange at first to communicate aloud or silently with All-That-Is, with the Universe itself, but as you become more and more aware that you are being heard, that there is communication going on in both directions, you will come to cherish the gift.
~ Wu Wei
The major difference between human and other life forms on our planet is our ability to reason and to question. For just a moment, try to deliberately free your mind from what you have been told about religion, evolution, birth, death, God, and other concepts you have about why you're here on earth.
~ Wu Wei
All religions believe that a Deity, a God, a Supreme Being, by whatever name they choose to call It, existed at the beginning of creation.
~ Wu Wei
If you were to peer into the heart of a stone at the atomic level, you would not see a dead, inert mass of material but a furiously whirling mini-cosmos. This mini-cosmos would look much like what you see when you look into the night sky, but its bits and pieces would be whirling at speeds near that of light.
~ Wu Wei
Keep aware of who and what you are as you become involved in the affairs of the world. Don't forget that you are an indestructible child of a golden Universe.
~ Wu Wei
Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia? Amar es soñar con mares en mitad de un largo insomnio
~ Xavier Velasco
Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?
~ Xavier Velasco
El dinero es como los hombres, si se queda a dormir te jode la existencia.
~ Xavier Velasco
Nos pasamos la vida alimentando nuestra soledad para que sea ella quien más tarde nos lleve al otro lado. Amamos de la única manera soportable: como si jamás fuésemos a morirnos.
~ Xavier Velasco
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
~ Yann Martel
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
~ Yann Martel
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
~ Yann Martel
Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Page 212.
~ Yann Martel
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
~ Yann Martel
We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.
~ Yann Martel
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
~ Yann Martel
This tiny habitation on wheels, with bit parts of the living room, the washroom, and the fireplace, is a pathetic admission that human life is no more than this: an attempt to feel at home while racing towards oblivion. He
~ Yann Martel