Quotes About Existence

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

There was this moment in my father's house where he said, 'My wife, she never had any kids and I never had any kids.' Yeah... He had never acknowledged my existence.

I'm obviously fighting for my community simply because I'm trans, and I have to do that, and I do it because that's my existence. I wake up in the morning, and that is my activism.

To add something to the world should be the question, not not adding something to the world.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

I don't believe in the afterlife.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

To God, all things are present; there is no past or future - it is all now.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?

According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.

Like evil, good is contagious. Therefore when Madame de la Chanterie's lodger had lived in that old and silent house for some months after the worthy Alain's last confidence, which gave him the deepest respect for the religious lives of those among whom his was cast, he experienced that well-being of the soul which comes of a regulated existence, gentle customs, and harmony of nature in those who surround us.

it is God without mankind

Alas! she is nothing now but a soul, a soul which beams upon her son and me; the body no longer exists; she has conquered suffering. Think what a spectacle for a father!