Quotes About Existence

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

I don't think the world is a particularly pleasant place.

This is the kind of world I was born in, one in which I had only one reason for existence: pleasing others.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one's self, you know, one day at a time.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive.

Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

God created me. And the closest I will ever get with God is this soul, this body. And if I don't have myself, if I don't listen to myself, if I don't trust myself, then I don't trust God, because God created me.

The closest you'll get to God, ever, in your existence, is measured by how close you get to yourself. Because your connection with God is you. He created you. That is the ultimate connection you have with God is you.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.

I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

Nothing can come of nothing.

When I was in college, I majored in comparative religion because I really wanted to figure out if there was God and how I should live my life.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

Where did God come from? It's certainly more complicated than trying to figure out where, say, Barry Manilow was born.