Quotes About Existence

God did nothing more than this: he willed it, he spoke it, and it was.

Thus the word "I" means the purity of God's essence, as he is in himself, and is free and bare of any additional essences which are foreign to him, for they are created.

Que proveito tenho eu se o nascimento eterno do filho divino ocorre sem cessar, mas não ocorre dentro de mim? Que proveito obtenho eu do fato de Deus dar à luz o seu filho, se eu não o trago à luz em minha época, e em minha cultura?

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Aveva sbattuto le palpebre, come se non fosse sicura di dov'era, né di essere chi era. Però riconobbe me, e mi sorrise. Per te non significa niente - ma per un uomo, a volte, un bagliore nella pupilla della persona amata può valere più di tutto. Capisci? Ha riconosciuto me prima di se stessa. Io testimoniavo che lei era viva, che lei esisteva - che è esistita.

L'ho guardato spesso, quell'estate, il cielo - qualche volta da solo e qualche volta con Marietta. Non ci ho trovato nessun messaggio, nessuna consolazione - neanche se le stelle erranti fossero infinite, e l'universo brulicasse di mondi che non conosciamo. E' solo un ripetitivo, arido meccanismo di corpi che ruotano nello spazio. Il cielo è vuoto.

In our layered experience of the world, it's possible to believe we have left behind the blunt realities of being animal. Nothing could be further from the truth. Human life may be a blend of biology and dreams, but these dreams are still animal dreams.

All I am is a skinful of old bones on horseback.

Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence. That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her. Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

And though he has watched a decent age pass by, a man will sometimes still desire the world.

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.

but Ronan reckoned there was no medicine in existence that could truly take the edge off a person's grief, nor was there ever likely to be.

I was just thoughts, just air. There was nothingness all around me. Was this what it was like to be dead? When you died, did you still sense everything going on around you, only it was happening so far away that you didn't care about it? You were floating through space and time, and nothing that happened to you mattered because nothing really could happen to you because you didn't exist?

Apparently, he was too bust living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

We fight, therefore, we are!

Tots ho van voler. Ho van fer expressament. Els feia falta per viure perquè s'avorrien. Les cares de tots eren cares de gent que voldrien coses sense saber ben bé quines són les coses que voldria, però que en vol sigui com sigui.