Quotes About Existence

Well, I say it is the place of science only to observe," he said. "To seek cause where it may be found, but to realize that there are many things in the world for which no cause shall be found; not because it does not exist, but because we know too little to find it. It is not the place of science to insist on explanation—but only to observe, in hopes that the explanation will manifest itself.

When you write it down…" he said. "Does that make it—whatever it is—real again? Or does the act of putting it into words make it unreal? You know, something…separate from yourself.

would I come one day to a point when nothing in me stirred to the sound of a crying baby, to the scent of a man aroused, to the brush of my own long hair against the skin of my naked back? And if I did come to such a point—would I mourn the loss, I wondered, or find myself peaceful, left to contemplate existence without the intrusion of such animal sensations?

Atheism is the last word of theism.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I am an absolute atheist.

I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

I write about living, not dying.

You can't have living without dying.

I worry about dying all the time so I worry about my health. I don't want to die because I absolutely love my life.

I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.

We appear to have form, but we are like a whirlpool. We appear to have form, but we are just whirling electrons.

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

Life is all about embracing each moment that is given to you.

I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless.

I live and work for the pure enjoyment of being alive.

There is not enough time for anything, ever.

We are in the entertainment business so the fans are everything and without them I pretty much don't exist.

Nobody's going to erase mine or anyone's existence.