Quotes About Existence

one day you'll realize that you've had not just one or two past or future existences... but that you were, and are, everybody and everything that has ever been... or will ever be.

Louise: "How did you get here?" Johnny: "Well, basically, there was this little dot, right? And the dot went bang and the bang expanded. Energy formed into matter, matter cooled, matter lived, the amoeba to fish, to fish to fowl, to fowl to frog, to frog to mammal, the mammal to monkey, to monkey to man, amo amas amat, quid pro quo, memento mori, ad infinitum, sprinkle on a little bit of grated cheese and leave under the grill till Doomsday." ~From the movie Naked, written by

You can't negate negation so how can being be?

If God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty -- by ceasing to exist.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos.

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Like parodies of themselves, theological notions are reflected in the triviality of our lives.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

Each second that goes by, we're all one second closer to the rest of our lives and our deaths.

Although it is undoubtedly true man was created by God; it is just as true that man was "made" by Satan." The Milkweed Prophesy; Epitaph of the Apocalypse

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

Always remember - you work because you don't know how to live. If you knew how to live, you would not work, and science wouldn't exist for you. But everybody taught us only how to work, not how to live. I don't know how to live either.

Tenecki smelled smoke, cursed, and thought: -Never enough time for eternity!!

Ima istina kojima ?ovek pomaže da umru—re?e ona—i sam ?ovek je istina koja umire.

Šta osvetljava naše snove, koji se dešavaju u potpunoj pomra?ini, iza sklopljenih o?iju? Se?anje na svetlost, koje više nema, ili svetlost budu?nosti, koju kao predujam uzimamo od sutrašnjeg dana, mada još nije svanuo? - U oba slu?aja to je nepostoje?a svetlost. Prema tome, svejedno nam je koji je odgovor ta?an I pitanje treba uzeti kao nepostoje?e.

But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

I talk to the dead although I don't believe in ghosts. But it makes me feel good to speak with them. Maybe that is what God is. A good God wouldn't have let my babies die. I can't believe in that. My babies did nothing wrong." "I agree. They did nothing wrong." He looked at her thoughtfully. "But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything than we can know.

But a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn't be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet. He wouldn't be God. There's more to everything that we can know.

But I was born today, and isn't it funny how no one gets to remember that moment and who was there? It's all what's told to you.