Quotes About Existence

He had never loved before her and he would never love after her—there was no after Elena for him. My love for you is the deepest truth of my existence. Spring and summer, fall and winter, I would spend all the seasons of my life with you.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

It is manifest that the existence of unstable conditions renders impossible the prediction of future events, if our knowledge of the present state is only approximate and not accurate.3

Ostara, if one dies while in these othere states of consciousness, one dies indeed. this begs the question, are dreams truly only ever dreams?

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self had come into being. There was no shame in awe; there was exaltation. ("Cafe Endless: Spring Rain")

Is it a good life or a bad one? The answer doesn't matter. It's the only life we have.

Le vide n'existe pas. Le tableau est toujours achevé. Même si Scarlatti s'était contenté de transcrire les notes jouées par son chat, le morceau aurait été là. Un seul et unique cil suffit à reconstituer l'individu entier. Chaque partie contient le tout.

Pero el relato -el hecho de relacionar acontecimientos y personas en una historia- es precisamente lo que da sentido a la existencia humana.

The Buddhists are right -- and so is Kundera -- this lightness of being is perfectly unbearable. Who can accept the idea of having only one life?

The capacity to dream beyond the facts of existence into their significance enables us to remember a true past, one that simultaneously reflects and illuminates experience.

every man must die. I do not think about it. It is what we do in life that matters.

if there is no God, and life is a chance product of blind material forces, what purpose does human life have? Is it just a chemical accident on a rock flying through the cold, empty reaches of space?

a mind capable of forming an argument against God's existence constitutes evidence for his existence. That is, a conscious being with the ability to reason, weigh evidence, and argue logically must come from a source that has at least the same level of cognitive ability.

But don't you see that as an inconsistency in your views?" the young man asked. Dawkins replied, "I sort of do, yes. But it is an inconsistency that we sort of have to live with, otherwise life would be intolerable.

Humans are not self-existent, self-sufficient, or self-defining. They did not create themselves. They are finite, dependent, contingent beings. As a result, they will always look outside themselves for their ultimate identity and meaning. They will define human nature by its relationship to the divine—however they define divinity. Those who do not get their identity from a transcendent Creator will get it from something in creation.

neither materialism nor pantheism is up to the task of accounting for the origin of human beings.

if you cannot identify the divine in any positive way, how do you even know it is real?

And the reason is that they thought matter was eternal.

a self-creating universe is a contradiction in terms.

De acordo com Clouser, o único aspecto compartilhado por todas as religiões é que reconhecem algo como divino – e usam essa palavra para significar a realidade eterna e autoexistente que é a origem de todo o restante. Obviamente, elas não concordam sobre o que se caracteriza como divino; concordam apenas que algo é divino. Nenhum outro fator é verdadeiramente universal entre as religiões.

The inescapable fact that we are personal beings constitutes evidence that our origin is a personal Being.