Quotes About Existence

Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.

the ontological argument for the existence of God.

How can you be alone if you are everything? And yet, because you are everything, you are totally alone.

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turn the possibility of something into something real..The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observe it.

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turns the possibility of something into something real.

Elizabeth liked commercials. They were anti-death. You had to be alive to buy things.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

Scripture teaches that God created all things ex nihilo—"out of nothing." Therefore all things derive their existence from the Creator, even the dust of the ground that God used to create humanity. Apart from the Creator there is only nothingness, or non-being.5 So when human beings base our identities on anything other than God—a job, being in love, accumulating wealth—it results only in returning to nothing.

Poetry is another name for a person's telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one's own perceptions.

What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don't know. Likewise, I don't know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I'm reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.

It's 2444. We're all someone.

If the origin of life had really been a random event , then it had really been a miracle.

All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and replace the perfect picture of your imagination with the reality of what you are capable of. From death, and sorrow, and compromise, you create. This is what it means, you finally realize, to be alive. ("The Chambered Fruit")

Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the source of our being.

A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in their premortal existence, Because our mothers love us, we learn, or more accurately remember, that God also loves us

A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.

We do not know space. We do not see it, we do not hear it, we do not feel it. We are standing in the middle of it, we ourselves are part of it, but we know nothing about it.

There is living and there is death," the Emperor said. "Pain is irrelevant unless it leads to the latter.

I had become comfortable with my own numbness; to suddenly remember I was male and not yet dead was a nuisance.

Would you rather be hungry or dead?