Quotes About Existence

Are we alone? Over time, you will come up with various answers to that same nagging question. Eventually one day it will occur to you that this endless asking is the answer you have been looking for. The fact that we have an ongoing dialogue with the universe is proof enough that there is "something" out there.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

I move and, circling, seek myself, O center, O center, road, voyagers of the world, of the future existing beyond the seas, in my pulse-beat.

Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

As civilized and advanced as we may have become, we still depend on breathable air, potable water, and fertile soil for our daily existence.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.

The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.

Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.

The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.

The existence of matter and energy in the universe did not require the violation of energy conservation at the assumed creation. In fact, the data strongly support the hypothesis that no such miracle occurred. If we regard such a miracle as predicted by the creator hypothesis, then the prediction is not confirmed.

The complex order we now observe [in the universe] could *not* have been the result of any initial design built into the universe at the so-called creation. The universe preserves no record of what went on before the big bang. The Creator, if he existed, left no imprint. Thus he might as well have been nonexistent.

Rather than being handed down from above, like the Ten Commandments, they [the laws of physics] look exactly as they should look if they were not handed down from anywhere...they follow from the very lack of structure at the earliest moment.

I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness

I paid the watchman fifty kopeks so that I could stay after closing time until the stars came out. And I thought: What is man on this earth? A wretched speck of dust which thinks, works, and suffers. What does he leave behind him?

L'univers et l'homme sont faits d'étoiles

Why survive if it is not for those who do not?

False is the body, false are the clothes; false is beauty.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.