Quotes About Existence

And my parents, whose end I can't imagine. And then, of course, me, the one trying to find a reason for living in the first place.

Every day after I wake up, I think, 'Wait... this can't be real; I'm still going to wake up.

It's always about the human condition. Go back to that and you'll find your story.

The surest symptoms of a wasted life are breathing, a pulse, and thinking...

Do you believe in God?" he asks. "Do you?" "I used to" "What happened?" "I couldn't find him. He's supposed to be everywhere. I mean, he's not supposed to be playing hide-and-seek.

Sometimes I wake at night and worry that I might have disappeared in my sleep. That's what happens when nobody cares about you. Bit by bit you begin to disappear until people look right through your chest and head like you're made of glass. It's not about love; it's about being forgotten. We only exist if others think about us. It is like that tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it. Who the fuck cares except the birds?

is so strange, this life we lead. We search for happiness, but so much is about survival. Existence. We try to manage expectations, but really we're treading water, wasting time, or contemplating lives we might have led. Pretty soon we're like every other godless, money-hungry, backstabbing, jaded, jealous human being, wishing we were richer, prettier, younger, luckier, or could do it all over again.

How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.

You're scared of dying.' 'Better than being scared of living.

For as long as I can remember, I have felt a vast weight resting on me, a sadness that has always been part of me yet doesn't belong to me.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

Or really, the question is: Is there a difference between when life begins and when life as a human begins?

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

The real mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, it is a reality to be experienced. —J. J. Van der Leeuw

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno of Elea (490–430 B.C., Greek philosopher)

God is about belief and faith. It is not about proving there is a God, for there is no proof. What proof can there be?

The two that are one, the one that is all!

We humans are nothing more than the sum of our memories.

Nicholas: One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself. Josh: DNA.

Why would anyone want to feel pain or fear?" Josh wondered aloud, both intrigued and repelled by the very idea. It seemed somehow wrong. "So they can feel alive," Scatty said.

You pity me?" "You are not living, you are surviving.

You are not living, you are surviving.

There ought to be more than just that metallic end, and then silence, then the worms, and sometimes he believed, but just this moment he did not believe at all...there was nothing beyond the sound of the guns...not even silence, just an end.

As above in consciousness, so below in matter