Quotes About Existence

I'd say, Doc, I can see you under the aspect of eternity and you're dead.

Bütün hayat birdir; 'kimse bir ada deÄŸildir,' Shakespeare'in eski zamanlarda söylediÄŸi gibi.

Sound occurs in the ears. Sound does not occur in the atmosphere. It occurs essentially within the human being, and that's Descartes's great contribution to psychology and philosophy. Which is where that thing comes from where they say if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there, does it make a noise?

WITH THEM, Joe Fernwright thought, there is not life but merely a synopsis of life. We are a thread that passes through their hands; always in motion, always flowing, we slip by and are never fully grasped. The slipping away is continuous, and carries all of us with it, on and on, toward the dreadful alchemy of the tomb.

Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.

I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.

But think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake…

There is a correspondence between the microcosm and the macrocosm! The stars are alive, child! Did you know that? Everything out there is alive, and there are grand purpose abroad! The universe is full of intentions , you know. Everything happens for a purpose.

In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen.

Why, yes, the mo­ment you're born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it's your death that takes you out.

What is the world of the spirits? It is nothing I know about. I don't know what spirit is. Spirit is what matter does.

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

Wir sind alle dem Schicksal unterworfen [...] aber wir müssen so tun, als seien wir es nicht, sonst würden wir vor Verzweiflung sterben.

Nothing is just anything.

Has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

There is time, and there is what is beyond time. There is darkness, and there is light. There is the world and the flesh, and there is God.

Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.

Death is going to die.