Quotes About Existence

how fragile and fleeting life is in the relentless flow of minor necessities that make up day-to-day existence.

The true statement 'Is is is' is a fact of reality.

We are by our nature caught up in the grandest mystery, our relationship to God, and also in the mystery most immediate to any of us, our own being.

One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.

Where does your lap go when you stand up? Where does your fist go when you open your hand? The same place God goes when you diminish life.

Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici.

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Love can corrupt and destroy, distort and betray – this I know from my own bitter experience; but I now also know that, without love, we are nothing.

No one escapes from life alive.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.

A life was no goddamn thing in the end, he thought. Bits and pieces of make-believe cobbled together to look halfways human, like some stick-and-rag doll meant to scare crows out of the garden. No goddamn thing at all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.

To die is to be eternally immersed in Love.

Father Sergius nodded. "Yes, but not as a pious form of life that one puts on like an overcoat. Rather, he lives this mystery without thinking about it. It is not something he does; it is something he is.

What shall I become that I have not already become? Do we create ourselves, or are we created?

All grief would slip away, and all questions would be remembered as the uncomprehending wails of a newborn who did not grasp the meaning of his existence and hungered only for milk.

El hombre es un extraño y un residente temporal. Su existencia es inefablemente hermosa... y peligrosa. Está colmada de misterios que suplican ser descifrados.

Perhaps there are places within us, places of true home, that do not yet exist and are carved from the stone of our hearts only by suffering. Perhaps. Who will tell me if this is true? For if it is not, then I am subject to the cruelest delusion of all. Yet, if I were to know, I would cease to be vulnerable, and I might make my home in exile.

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

Man is a creature of Heaven and earth, but he no longer knows it. He no longer knows himself.

Did you know that the root of the word religion is religare? It means to reconnect. You see, there's a gash in the fabric of existence, and the only way to bind it together is to make new life. You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.