Quotes About Existence

We are of the universe, and by studying the universe we ultimately turn the mirror on ourselves.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album? "Most of the time, when people walk outside at night and see the stars, it's a big, pretty background, and it's not quite real," said the Caltech planetary scientist Michael Brown. "It doesn't occur to them that the pattern they see in the sky repeats itself once a year, or to appreciate why that's true.

We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least—call it a mechanospiritual sense—we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. We live and die, age beautifully or full of wrinkles. We wake in the morning, buy yellow cheese, and hope we have enough money to pay for it. At the same instant, we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all winters we are alive on the earth. We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers must think, this is how we must sit down with pen in hand.

Every moment is enormous and it is all we have.

He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person...

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

?nimy we ?nie, ?nimy na jawie. Nieustannie tkwi?c w stanie snu, ?nimy nieraz, ?e si? budzimy.

Writing in the context of racial prejudice—as one who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s—Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel argued that prejudice is atheism, "a treacherous denial of the existence of God." In other words, prejudice negates any pretence of trying to believe in a God who claims to have made all people in His image. Heschel continues, "Any god who is mine but not yours, any god concerned with me but not with you, is an idol.

There are secrets behind everything that God creates.

But whether he was happy or not it is hard to say. Probably he was neither, just as a plant is neither. He had memories to disturb him and a plant hasn't, but after the first bad night his memories were quiet.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

Sometimes living can be hard, but it's only because we're alive that we can make each other laugh,cry...be happy! In this world, if that's not a reason for being born in this world...I don't know what is!

We're lucky just to be alive.

Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's real is this - my death.

Maybe what I want is to cut all ties with everybody. The thread or something that keeps me connected to the world, the worthless proof that I exist.