Quotes About Existence

Every day above earth is a good day.

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

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough.

Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. And almost always, somewhere along the way, magic.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I wake up every day and I think, 'I'm breathing! It's a good day.'

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Either the law exists, or it does not.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.