Quotes About Existence

they had been doomed to birth and condemned to live.

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.

There's something absurdly comforting about the notion that we live in a universe of infinite possibilities.

Il existe trois étapes vers la perfection pour les hommes. la première consiste à te connaitre, comme Dieu te connait -et je ne connais personne qui ait une telle connaissance de soi- , la deuxième consiste à ce que tu sois avec Dieu et à ce qu'Il soit, et la troisième consiste à ce que tu ne sois plus et que tout soit Lui.

God is not a reality to be explained; He is the explanation of reality.

Total nudity is very strongly advised against, even when one is 'alone'. This is because absolute solitude does not exist in a world in which we share existence with the djinns and angels.

But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!

See to it that you stand truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of important things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the center of his compass at his own home.

Qué es la felicidad? Nada. Una palabra para designar algo que siempre ocurre en el pasado, y, como siempre ocurre en el pasado, resulta que nunca ocurrió.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

It may be that poetry's real beauty and elegance is not its finely-chiseled lines or smoothly-rounded ideological concepts at all. The crown of its significance might be––or possibly should be?––its expansive capacity to embrace with equal passion the deadliest failings and the most splendid victories defining human existence.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Sometimes life is like living in a chamber of Liquid Oxygen. Liquid don't allow you to live and Oxygen don't let you die.

Every atom a teacher, each Universe a seeker

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,But an eternal now does always last.