Quotes About Existence

It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous beyond imagination, in which he might have lived, he was this one, pinned to this single point of infinity; the rest always to be alien, he to be I.

That," I said, "is the business of the gods, who made us." "Yes, but for what? We ought to be good for it, whatever it is. How can we live, until we know?" I gazed at him; such desperate words, yet he looked all lit from within. He saw I was paying attention; that was enough to draw him on.

Se le ocurrió que nadie sino él miraría nunca desde sus ojos, que de entre todas las vidas en que podía haber vivido, más numerosas que lo imaginable, esta era la suya, clavada en este único punto del infinito; el resto siempre sería ajeno, él sería yo.

grief more than in joy, man longs to know that the universe turns around him.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

We are all one question and the best answer seems to be love--a connection between things.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more…

The stars flash out of the dark and disappear, but not for people to see. We're just people. And we flash into life and disappear, but not for the stars to see. They're just stars. How strange, strange, strange. Being alive, feeling, thinking __

If this world can exist, then anything is possible.

To lead a human life, a man must have a notion of himself as having a past and a future.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

perhaps our purpose is, for the time being, to be human, to live on this earth and in this human community, to receive something from it, and to give something back.

The spiritual realm is not the ethereal beyond our lived experience. It is our experience, lived fully and well.

Am I ultimately alone? How many of us have asked that question—drunk or sober—when we've wondered if there was a God or when we've decided that there was none? And the universe reels around us, more vast than we could begin to comprehend and more apparently empty. But it's only when we overlook the fairly obvious fact that we are human beings on a planet packed with human beings that we can entertain the fairly self-indulgent idea that we are, in fact, alone.

If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, does she exist? I