Quotes About Existence

I had a moment's glory that night, though. I was certain I was here in this world because I couldn't tolerate any other place

I will be gone, but I will miss you if I'm still able to miss anything, that is, if some particle of me remains and some particle of you.

When I sit up here... I'm just blown away God even notices us...

His life had no meaning. It was intolerable. The last three decades had been a hollow waste of time. Hands

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Mystery, I'd read somewhere, is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.

We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life. We rent it.

There's darkness in this world you can't learn about by watching TV and reading books.

Cruelty is older than the Bible. Savagery beat its chest in the first human summer and has kept beating it every day since. The worst in men is commonplace. The best is a far rarer thing.

I'm just bones in a box, Teddy.

Montooth squared himself, his eyes suddenly clear. "You heard the earth's mostly water, right?" Joe nodded. "And people think God lives up in the sky, but that don't never make much sense to me because the sky is way, way up there, not part of us, you know?" "But the ocean?" Joe said. "That's the skin of the world. And I think God lives in the drops. Moves through a wave like the foam itself. I look

But what if there's no such thing as time after this life?" "I don't understand." "No minutes, no hours, no clocks. No night turning into day. I like to think your mother's not alone, because she's not waiting for us. We're already there.

His heart stopped. His lungs. His brain. The circumnavigation of his blood.

We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame, and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes, it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don't own our life, we rent it.

But what? No one's good, no one's bad. Everyone's just trying to make their way.

Time is rented, Joe thought, never owned.

We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.

Blessed are You God, ruler of the world, Who created man in wisdom and created within him numerous orifices and spaces. It is known and revealed before You that if one of them should open when it should close or one of them should close when it should open, it would be impossible for us to exist. Blessed are You God, Who heals all mankind and does wonders.

A rabbi challenged his followers one day: "Where does God exist?" Puzzled by what almost seemed to be a heretical question, they answered: "God exists everywhere." "No," the rabbi responded: "God exists wherever man lets Him in.

If there is no God, we know there is no ultimate meaning or purpose to life: that all existence—including, of course, our own—is the result of random chance.

To be an atheist is to believe the universe came about by itself, life came from non-life by itself, and consciousness came about by itself.

Belief in God means more than believing God exists; it also means believing God cares about us. After all, if God exists but doesn't care about us, what difference does it make to us whether God exists? For all intents and purposes, there is no difference between atheism and the existence of a God who doesn't care about us.

Many people seem to want this epitaph: "I led as painless a life as possible." But the purpose of life is not to avoid pain. That is the purpose of an animal's life—but animals cannot know happiness.