Quotes About Existence

was the only incoming they'd taken in days. How do you go about telling a guy who is alive only because he didn't use the shitter at the wrong time that he ought to go back home, go to school, get married and mortgaged, have kids, and commit to the world when he knows for a fact that nothing in this world is real except chance?

I am the first, and I am the last [Jesus was chosen at the first, in the premortal existence, to be our Redeemer, and He will be around at the last, to be our Judge—see John 5:22]; and beside me there is no God [there are

If one is inflexible and devoted to an illusion of normalcy - stability, permanence, reality - then the break is always harsher. The more rules there are to violate, the more violations there will be, because what we call reality is an interpretative construct of the human mind; a reality we re-make every day to deny the howling nothingness of existence and the meaningless tragedy of life.

We are not physical creatures having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual creatures having a physical experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." (A. E. Housman)

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

I did wonder what happened when we died, though, and I'd wondered about it for most of my life. Thinking that nothing happened, that there was absolutely nothing following all of this pain, seemed just as silly as magic. No, there had to be something.

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

But something cannot be made out of nothing. Dust rose in the air, caught the rays of the sun for a brief moment and sparkled, and then returned to the earth as mere dust.

the financial market is not something that exists like you or I, Karin, or this bottle of water on the table. The moment we stop believing in it, it ceases to exist.

If God is indeed omnipotent, is he then capable of creating something more intelligent than himself?

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

the sleeper shark can live to the age of four hundred years, because it exists in slow motion.

You do know what the campaign against you is all about, don't you? Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they've sold out,

To be alive, Professor Sharif, means not being completely consistent.

So the very instant we create a superintelligence we lose control, is that right?" "The risk is that everything we know about the world will cease to be relevant, and it'll be the end of human existence.

We're all nearly sick, aren't we?

De pronto comprendió que todos aquellos meses en que se había mostrado tan «activa» eran tan sólo una mentira. Había que mentir para poder vivir aquella muerte lenta, o si no, uno se moría durante todo lo que le quedaba de vida.

To be human is often an endless tangle of invisible forces and confounding paradoxes, of being many things all at the same time.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.

Elias nodded. "You begin to understand the theory of probability," he said. "From the general necessity of the existence of victims, you will find the particular of the villain.

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

When does a novel begin? The question is almost as difficult to answer as the question, when does the human embryo become a person?