Quotes About Existence

The secret is not to act, but to be.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration, I think that the fear of immigration that has existed in American history from the first day, I just find it to be wrong.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Nobody knows the man behind Rajesh Khanna, because that never existed. In his last few days, he had told me, 'Pack up, show is over.'

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.

My mere existence as a member of Congress as a Palestinian causes a lot of fear, because I'm here as a human being, as an American, that is saying to the world that we exist.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

When they're growing up, if you tell kids God exists, they believe it. It's the same with the techno-cultural society. They believe in it - that it's the road to paradise, that there are no limits.

This is a paradox of man: compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.