Quotes About Existence

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

I have a shallow understanding of what it means to be alive, and I know certain things about parenting and being a wife and doing the school run. I know little bits, but I'm really a paddler on a beach.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

If the Big Bang is true, that means everything that came out of it, all of the particles, all of us, there is a scientific force that connects it all that we don't really know about.

We know that if supersymmetric particles exist, they must be very heavy; otherwise we would have spotted them by now.

I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.

We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

Not being dead is my version of partying. So far, so good.

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness, like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.

I've always believed there is a better place somewhere. I feel like I'm E.T. and I'm just passing through.

Time moves along at its own pace for as long as we are on this planet, and then some. So why try to beat it anymore? Maybe it's better to meet time head on and chill ourselves out so we can exist in harmony with the passing days.