Quotes About Existence

We are each of us composed of atoms, but equally, we are composed by time.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

My spiritual journey began at conception.

As far as I'm concerned, I didn't dream - ever.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

There are colors we can't see, but they're connected to the ones we can, There's a connection between everything.

You can better embrace life, you can enjoy it more, when you are conscious that it will end. You bite life.

I have always considered myself to be spiritual in a way that has less to do with religion and more with an awareness that you have, and the consciousness you have of being alive and the consciousness that you will be dead.

For me, consciousness is non-local, not limited to the body, and can exist independent of it.

I do believe in God. I don't believe in God as a person, but I believe in God as a state of energy and consciousness that we all share.

One advantage of arguing that causality is aesthetic is that it allows us to consider what we call consciousness alongside what we call things.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.

Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't alive, how can you create art?

I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only problem with those strategies is they forget that only God is eternal. We are finite.

In SW1 you don't really need survival skills, you just exist.