Quotes About Existence

In London, I was unique. But down here, where I was a bungalow one minute and a funeral parlour the next, I felt as thought I was dissolving. I mean, if you're everywhere, you're nowhere. If you're everything, you're nothing.

On the other side of the coin—Lucifer's side—the belief that he does not exist at all is an enormous advantage that he has never enjoyed to such a great degree. It is the ultimate camouflage. Not to believe in evil is not to be armed against it. To disbelieve is to be disarmed. If your will does not accept the existence of evil, you are rendered incapable of resisting evil. Those with no capacity of resistance become prime targets for Possession. Just

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?

That was all it took – a shower of rain, the slam of a door, the thrust of a knife or a gunshot – and just like that, a person could be gone with nothing but the memories of others to show that they'd ever existed.

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Maybe you and I and the fish exist only in the memory of a person who is gone. Maybe no one really exists, and it's only raining outside. Maybe the bird never existed at all. -Boy (Angel's Egg)

That's all it is. Information. Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.

He had spent the winter existing, not living. Today, for the first time since the autumn, he felt glad to be alive.

Remember that this world is an illusion as much as the others. We who have sight see what we choose to see and so make it real.

My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht etwas jenseits des Menschlichen, sondern es will mitten im Menschlichen sein. Das ›Christliche‹ ist nicht ein Selbstzweck, sondern es besteht darin, daß der Mensch als Mensch vor Gott leben darf und soll.

Der Christ lebt aus den Zeiten Gottes und nicht aus seinem eigenen Begriff vom Leben.

Der Mensch wird aufgerufen, das Leiden Gottes an der gottlosen Welt mitzuleiden. Er muß also wirklich in der gottlosen Welt leben und darf nicht den Versuch machen, ihre Gottlosigkeit irgendwie religiös zu verdecken, zu verklären; er muß ›weltlich‹ leben und nimmt eben darin an den Leiden Gottes teil.

Frei sein heißt nichts anderes, als in der Liebe sein. Und in der Liebe sein heißt nichts anderes, als in der Wahrheit Gottes sein.

existence a temporary delusion—hadn

In Freemasonry is concealed a mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs. p. 18

Hegel further believed that all things owe their existence to their opposites and that all opposites are actually identical.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the world is God.