Quotes About Existence

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.

Before the World was created, the Word already existed. The Word was the source of life, and this life brought light to mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put in out.

there is a contradiction between what desire wants – complete conquest – and what it needs in order to continue to exist:

The world had to be sliced into hours to fill; otherwise you could go mad with loneliness.

God has to be a sadist to give people life.

If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked. "I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.

Som barn tänkte jag mig alltid själen som en liten fågel. I en illustrerad världshistoria som min far hade såg också att egypterna avbildade den som en fågel. Men en fågel flyger inte högre än luften räcker, och den räcker inte långt. Den hör till jorden den också. I skolan hade vi en lärare i naturkunnighet som förklarade för oss att ingenting av det som finns på jorden kan komma bort ifrån den.

Look at your world from your own point of view, not from some point in space. Modestly measure with your own yardstick, after your own status, your own predicament, the status and the predicament of man the earthdweller. Then life is large enough and a thing of consequence; and night endless, deep.

Här stod tiden stilla. Det är med förändringarna man mäter tidens gång, jag har ingenting att mäta den med.

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.

Man is a dog's idea of what God should be.

Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)

They say that nameless things change constantly -that names fix them in place like pins. But without a name, a thing isn't quite real either.

It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what's left is all construct, all artifice.

You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die. He's wrong about me. I am going to make my mayfly life count for something. I won't be afraid of him or of Prince Dain's censure. If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse. -Pg. 210

Do you know what mortal means? It means born to die. It means deserving of death. That's what you are, what defines you—dying.

There is only now. There is only tomorrow and tonight and now and soon and never.

All is interrelated, said one. Fire and earth, air and water. All are but one thing, not four, not two, and not three, but one. Where they are not together is only an incomplete piece. A

Some things exist whether you believe in them or not

If there is nothing but this;" Roiben said. "If we are to be shadows, changeless and forgotten, we will have to dine on these memories for the rest of our days. Don't you want a few more moments to chew over?

Air all around him, there was air in the water, all elements were one, fire and earth, air and water. All are but one thing, not four, not two, and not three, but one. He

So long as there really was nothing wrong with his soul.