Quotes About Existence

in truth nothing lives in me life my life.

in truth nothing lives in me like my life.

It had cost him dearly to clear a space where he could exist in the world as antagonistically as he liked.

In my experience the direction of life is toward incoherence—precisely what you would never confront. Maybe that was the only coherent thing you could think to do: die to deny incoherence.

Someone to whom the tangible and the immediate are repugnant, to whom only the illusion is fully real.

More meaning than was necessary was in the nature of things.

Every mundane detail, quickly forgotten, marks our time on this earth. We're doing nothing. Just living.

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that He should not exist; that the soul should be joined to the body, and that we should have no soul; that the world should be created, and that it should not be created . . . BLAISE PASCAL1

As Dennis Covington has written, Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend. 7-20

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?

Naturalist John Muir concluded sadly, "It is a great comfort … that vast multitudes of creatures, great and small and infinite in number, lived and had a good time in God's love before man was created.

I find a simple answer in the Bible's overarching theme that God is love. That quality, more than anything else, makes clear the reason behind all creation. Love cannot really exist without an object to receive it.

never live as though God does not exist." Or, stated positively, "Always live in awareness of God's existence.

That this world spoiled by evil and suffering still exists at all is an example of God's mercy, not his cruelty.

Christian myth, reveals the truth that the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him. And they cried out in a great voice: He made us. CS Lewis

Ah, Hannah, you have never longed to live as I long to live if you do not know that another day is the most precious thing.

He shrugged. "Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

I believe there is a creator, a great creator of the world, but I do not know his name. I know the names that he is given by man. Why should I prefer one name to another? What I want to know is

Nothing in the world matter more than life. You have a long road to walk and a lot of lessons to learn if you don't know that.

Il y a au centre africain un lac peuplé d'insectes mâles et qui ne savent que mourir à la fin du jour

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.