Quotes About Existence

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings sprout and grow-and feelings are all that matters, as far as I'm concerned. Is a feeling anything but an entire world poured into a thought?

Cu cât îi este mai josnic? via?a cu atât ?ine omul la ea, via?a lui e atunci un protest, o r?zbunare de toate clipele.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others -- existences which the spirit alone remembers, for matter has no memory for spiritual things.

There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin.

Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

Before I had a name I existed in the world as breath as the wind as a star. For a moment if I could be the breath & the wind & the nameless star I'd meet the sky that holds them as it holds me, & I'd say joyfully, namaste.

One brief journey betwixt heaven and earth, Then, alas! we are the same old dust of ten thousand ages.

We know there aren't little green men running around this planet touching peepees.

Beauty persists. Which, as truths go, complicates all we need to know.

Future Perfect Where you were before you were born, and where you are when you're not anymore might be very close. Might be the same place, though neither is as slippery as being here but imagining where you will have been- that point where things land, are finished, over, and gone but not yet.

I have no fear of death," Shigeru replied. "But it is wrong to say I am in love with it. Quite the opposite: I think I've proved how much I love life.

Al igual que el río siempre está a la puerta, así está siempre el mundo de puertas afuera. Y es en ese mundo donde estamos obligados a vivir.

But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have to live.

How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?

The world is always outside. And it is in the world that we must live.

I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children who never existed. There is real grief in the world. There are real mothers losing real children.

It felt like it was all still there, that time of their lives, somewhere metaphysical, accessible through some magical means other than memory.

and the memory had vanished, the way old clothes vanished and you forgot they had ever existed until an old photo reminded you: I loved that T-shirt.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going' Tennessee Williams