Quotes About Existence

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Lakkaako kerran olemassaoloni, vai muistanenko viime tapaamisemme maailman tuolle puolen?

Why is there something, rather than nothing?" is a question that anyone can ask.

How do we know that we exist? No one knows. Not so, you say. I think, therefore I exist. But how do you know that you think? No one knows that either. You just do.

As Christians understand it, creation is a trinitarian process: God the Father creates through the Son in the power of the Holy Spirit. So all things are created `by God', are formed `through God' and exist `in God'.

To discover the 'traces of God' in nature does not indeed save us, but it does mane us wise, as tradition says; for we discover in the memory of nature a wisdom of existence and life which mirrors the wisdom of God, and for human civilization it is wise to co-operate with nature and to become integrated in it, instead of exploiting and hence destroying it in the interests of human domination.

God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. But he does suffer from his love, which is the overflowing superabundance of his being. And in this sense he can suffer.

The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

In its final words The Spirit of Utopia expresses the new symbiosis of Jewish commandment and modern will: `Only the wicked exist through their God; but the righteous - God exists through them

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

At this moment, or any moment, we're only a cross-section of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us—the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only a kind of dream.

Een mens is te klein voor dit leven.

Toen ik aan hun sterfbed zat, zag ik dat de ziel bestond. Tijdens hun leven had ik haar nooit gezien, maar toen ze dood waren, zag ik dat er iets verdwenen was. Ziel. Iets dat zich alleen kenbaar maakt door afwezigheid.

Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.

He is what He is and there was never a time when he wasn't.

If all meaning were relative, then the meanings of the terms in the proposition "All meaning is relative" would be relative. Therefore the proposition "All meaning is relative" destroys itself. It is nothing but an evasion of reality. That seems a high price to pay, even for the privilege of killing people.

Then she said, "Life sure give a body plenty to think about in this world." I said, "Life give your brain plenty to think bout in this world. It's Love what give your body plenty to think bout.

At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present.

The very basis of the religion of Jesus was a triumphant belief in the real existence of a personal God. And without that belief no type of religion can rightly appeal to Jesus to-day. Jesus was a theist, and rational theism is at the basis of Christianity.

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved; it is a reality to be experienced.

I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!