Quotes About Existence

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

Language is the measure of our lives, and what it means to be human.

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?

Remember; no matter where you go, there you are.

The greater the love, the more false to its object,Not to be born is the best for man;After the kiss comes the impulse to throttle,Break the embraces, dance while you can.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Thoughts on his own death, like the distant roll of thunder at a picnic.

We'll sing and dance and suffer and die, but we'll make lives here. Which is what existence is all about, isn't it?

Truth, my friend, is food, shelter, warmth, companionship, and living to see another sunset. There, damn you. How much more elemental can you get? That's Truth.

La amabilidad es para los vivos. Los muertos ya no la necesitan.

This fundamental dimension of being itself, of the actual existence of what they are studying, is taken for granted by all other branches of knowledge, which then go on to study what it is and how it works. But just because something is taken for granted does not mean that it is unimportant.

Such an austere religion has never appealed to the masses and today may have less than 4 million adherents. Jains do not believe in a personal creator God. Liberation is through their way of life and entails becoming a monk or nun, which may not be achieved in their present existence. It is nontheistic; the gods are themselves souls on the way to liberation.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I think I was cold in the womb.

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.