Quotes About Existence

I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances.

There have been bombings by extremists. They are not representatives of Islam. They're not representative of the vast majority of people who love this country, but nonetheless, they exist.

If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.

Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

Life will continue on the other side of the veil.

I think living in a way that's close to nature makes you feel like that - makes you feel how thin the veil is between life and death.

There is stardust in your veins. We are literally, ultimately children of the stars.

Bits and pieces flung into the universe, sticking in the sky like cotton balls on a jet black velcro surface.

The conservative media movement exists primarily as a moneymaking venture.

I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before?

As it happens, Cumberland was on the verge of bankruptcy and had to give up football. But the villainous Heisman made it play a game that had been scheduled when Cumberland still had a team, or Heisman threatened to demand a $3,000 forfeiture fee that could well have put the school out of existence.

I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.

I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in that first verse, I was actually writing about the experience of me and my wife's relationship and finding someone who you feel safe with and you relate to and can ponder existence with.

Bivanje je polnost, ki je ?lovek ne more zapustiti.

Nasmeh dreves, lovorovega zelenja, to je nekaj pomenilo, to je bila resni?na skrivnost bivanja.

Couldn't I try. . . . Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune . . . but couldn't I, in another medium? . . . It would have to be a book: I don't know how to do anything else. But not a history book: history talks about what has existed—an existant can never justify the existence of another existant

All is full, existence everywhere, dense, heavy and sweet. But beyond all this sweetness, inaccessible, near and so far, young, merciless and serene, there is this... this rigour.