Quotes About Existence

Enough funds remain to support her longer than she expects to live.

Instead, he functioned well on four or five hours, with an occasional six. Sleep was rest to him, yes, but it also felt like a taste of death, waking to discover that, for hours, the world had gone on just fine without him, as one day it would go on forever.

the meaninglessness of existence.

The why of a life could never be solved in this world, although vast libraries of solemn books speculated on the meaning and purpose of existence. Nothing could be known other than the what of any single life: what happened, what actions were taken, what events occurred beyond the person's control, what obvious consequences ensued, what impact for better or worse that one life was seen to have on others.

T. S. Eliot: LIFE YOU MAY EVADE, BUT DEATH YOU SHALL NOT.

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

If we live forever, it doesn't matter so much what happens to us here.

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. My

you were incarnate as yourself in numerous timelines, living many lives.

that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature. She

Love was not an act of reason, but a leap of faith, a belief that some mysterious meaning must lie behind existence and that two particular lives were fated to be one; love was an expression of trust in the truth of the heart's yearning and the mind's keen intuition. In the absence of love, the heart might be deceitful above all things, but profound love was an antivenin that cured deceit.

postmodern man who denies the existence of any Truth and believes that each of us makes his own truth that is as valid as any other.

every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.

Parallel Universes and Quantum Reality

This was a theory of Kipp's: There are parallel universes, and when we die, we go on living in other realities. Dorothy was lost here, but not lost everywhere.

It is human nature to know we die and still to disbelieve it; otherwise, we might not carry on.

Yeah, life is complicated, but if it wasn't complicated, it would be a roller coaster on a flat track. Wouldn't be a ride worth taking. And, yeah, we never fully know ourselves, but that means we're mysterious enough to interest one another. And if we fully knew ourselves in this world, what reason would we have to still be here?

All matter, when seen at its root, arises out of a base web that has all the characteristics of thought waves.

The urgent events of this night had perhaps for the first time in his thirty-six years given him a sure connection with others and an awareness of meaning in his life, as well as a sense of purpose beyond mere continued existence—that purpose perceived by everyone yet mysterious, which involved not the body and the world, but the soul.

I wonder sometimes why those who theorize about the human mind can so easily believe in the existence of things they cannot see or measure, or in any meaningful way confirm as real—such as the id, the ego, the unconscious I—but nevertheless dismiss as superstitious those who believe the body has a soul.

Libby has always thought animals live in the moment, their past dismissed as irrelevant

The correct question has three equal parts. What's wrong with humanity? Then…what's wrong with nature, with its poison plants, predatory animals, earthquakes, and floods? And last…what's wrong with cosmic time, as we know it, which steals everything from us?

I didn't create this world," she said to herself. "I only have to live in it.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives.We own our thoughts, but everything else is borrowed. Everything.