Quotes About Existence

And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.

Funny how physics didn't go away when you were murdered.

But the past never leaves us. It's in every breath, every cell, every second. I know that now.

Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.

we're just paper on a shelf, in the end

There's no time in a woman's life that isn't dangerous, and that's just a fact of life.

Dead doesn't mean gone.

Creatures of your planet sing. I sing. The stars sing. Who am I to believe they are not singing on purpose?

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it. . . .

Most of us walk unseeing through the world, unaware alike of its beauties, its wonders, and the strange and sometimes terrible intensity of the lives that are being lived about us.

Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it. . . . The

In her rooms, as in ours, people live under great pressure. Time bears down upon us. The world is raging, and we have each of us but a tiny sphere of activity.

But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

I suspected that when something was a beginning and an ending at the same time, that meant it could only exist in the present

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way. This notebook is a strange instrument—the player doesn't know the music until it's being played.

I hope that global warming will go away. I hope that people won't be homeless. I hope that suffering will not exist. I want to believe that my hope is not in vain. I want to believe that even though I hope for things that are so magnanimous, I am not a bad person because what I really want to believe in is purely selfish. I want to believe there is somebody out there just for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment.

I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.

Sleeping is time not spent living.

It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning.