Quotes About Existence

Veel van de levenden zijn ook vaag en op drift, die tekortkoming is niet louter aan overledenen voorbehouden.

Muchos de los vivos también se ven borrosos y a la deriva, no es un defecto exclusivo de los difuntos.

The Malus Codicum. It was an infernal book, thrice damned. I knew of no other copy in existence. One half of the Inquisition would kill me to get their hands on it, the other half would burn me for having it in my possession.

k?lo'smi lokaksayakrt pravrddho lok?nsam?hartumiha pravrttah.

Los mitos crecren como cristales, según su propia estructura recurrente, pero es necesaria la existencia de un núcleo apropiado para iniciar su crecimiento - Koestler

Pherhaps we are cursed', Karkasy told the empty fane, 'to crave something which does not exist. There are no gods, no spirits, no daemons. So we make them up, to comfort ourselves'.

The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time.

Jesus supposedly lived sometime between 4 B.C.E. and 30 C.E., but there is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, not during his entire lifetime.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning.

It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.

It's hard to believe that this is how it's done. That this is how we get here into the world, by accident or design, the microscopic pieces of ourselves borne by fluids and blood and growing into a tiny kingdom of cells inside someone else's body It seems so difficult to become alive. So improbable.

If no one knows you, then you are no one.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity.

Did you know that we live inside the sun?

If your blood didn't flow, you would die, Arlo," said Andrea, who calls me by my real name because she knows I don't like it.

Without time and space, nothing can change, and without change, it is hard to imagine any reality worth imagining.

Without time, nothing happens. Without space, nothing is.

There is perhaps no topic more widely discussed among theologians, philosophers and scientists of nearly all times and all cultures than the origin of the Universe.

Life is absurd; we must learn to enjoy the beautiful amber that coats the fossils of death strewn all around us.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates