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Quotes About Existence

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.
~ Thomas Browne
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
~ Thomas Browne
To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.
~ Thomas Browne
Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
~ Thomas Carlyle
I don't believe in God for the same reason that most people don't believe in Apollo or Zeus. ... God is just human beings' way of personifying an otherwise completely natural universe.
~ Thomas Lewis
If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.
~ Timothy Keller
We are all God's animated cartoons.
~ Tom Hanks
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
~ Tom Waits
Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.
~ Umberto Eco
God Tris, are you even human?
~ Veronica Roth
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
~ W. H. Auden
For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
~ Walter Isaacson
The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.
~ Wayne Dyer
That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness.
~ Wayne Dyer
Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.
~ William Blake
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
~ William James
The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
~ William Ralph Inge
If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.
~ Zach Braff
The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.
~ Laura Hillman
I certainly believe that God did create the world, yeah, absolutely I believe that.
~ Lee Strobel
Dieu, c'est le voile mystérieux sous lequel nous cachons notre ignorance de la cause première. God is the mysterious veil under which we hide our ignorance of the cause.
~ Leo Errera
And the cause of everything is that which we call God.
~ Leo Tolstoy