Quotes About Existence

That's actually happened?' Ruth asked. 'Everything's happened,' the prostitute said.

I must part with you for my whole life, she read, with horror. I must begin a new existence amongst strange faces and strange scenes. The truth of that closed the book for her, forever.

As often as I feel certain that God exists, I feel as often at a loss to say what difference it makes—that He exists—or even: that to believe in God, which I do, raises more questions than it presents answers. Thus, when I am feeling my most faithful, I also feel full of a few hard questions that I would like to put to God—I mean, critical questions of the How-Can-He, How-Could-He, How-Dare-You variety.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. John Irving's The World According to Garp

WELL, NOW YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT GOD," said Owen Meany. "I CAN'T SEE HIM—BUT I ABSOLUTELY KNOW HE IS THERE!

IF SOME PREACHER'S AN ASSHOLE, THAT'S NOT PROOF THAT GOD DOESN'T EXIST! (page 286)

Na vida de um homem, seu tempo é apenas um momento... os sentidos, a luz mortiça de uma vela

THERE'S LIFE ON EARTH, THERE'S HEAVEN—AND THERE'S HELL." "I think life on earth is hell," I said.

In the World according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.

IF WE FIRST APPEAR IN THE PLEISTOCENE, I THINK THIS IS WHEN WE DISAPPEAR - I GUESS A MILLION YEARS OF MAN IS ENOUGH

And the trick of having faith, he said, was that it was necessary to believe in God without any great or even remotely reassuring evidence that we don't inhabit a godless universe.

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there was no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. —FREDERICK BUECHNER

Therefore, there must be a first mover existing above all—and this we call God.

Some unexplainable things are real.

In the life of a man," wrote Marcus Aurelius, "his time is but a moment . . .

May the spirit of death make a clerical error and forget you exist.

The planets still existed, for sure; she doubted Chancellor Palpa-whoosit or anyone he was fighting had the power to change that.

Is it because they all testify that we are never guaranteed a happy life, only life itself? …

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

t this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence, and to shew How quiet death is.

But this is human life: the war, the deeds, The disappointment, the anxiety, Imagination's struggles, far and nigh, All human; bearing in themselves this good, That they are still the air, the subtle food, To make us feel existence. -Keats, Endymion This is the 'goal' of the soul path – to feel existence; not to overcome life's struggles and anxieties, but to know life first hand, to exist fully in context. (Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul, p.260)

A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence because he has no identity-he is continually infirming and filling some other body.

Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.