Quotes About Existence

Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

The spirit of Texas seems to pervade our everyday existence. Our desire is to be superlative, not only the largest, but also the best in the United States.

The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one's desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.

Desires stay unaware of man's fragile existence authored by scarcity

We are the creators, not only of our own destiny, but ultimately we are the creators of universal destiny. We are the creators of the universe.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.