Quotes About Existence

Little by little it dawned on me that there was a purpose to life. That we had the chance to use this precious existence to develop our most altruistic motives and compassionate instincts. To be the best that we could be!

Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.

in Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 "There is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything new of which one might say, 'See this, it is new?' Already it has existed for ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of earlier things; and of the later things which will occur, there will be no remembrance among those who will come later still.

Remember what I said about worlds," Nettie said, "and time. You have said it yourself – I heard it like a whisper on the wind. It is all dreams within dreams. That is the real secret. Time is not made up of one long string, but of layers.

Where can we live but days?

I think reality is overrated.

You are not just here to fill space or be a background character in someone else's movie. Consider this: nothing would be the same if you did not exist. Every place you have ever been and everyone you have ever spoken to would be different without you. We are all connected, and we are all affected by the decisions and even the existence of those around us.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

The natural world is the only reality, thus the only valid base for spirituality there is.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Description or law, it challenged the theory of special creation and bruited the idea of evolution in a tone of thunderous innuendo.

Zoonoses by definition involve events beyond the ordinary, and the scope of their consequences can be extraordinary too. Every spillover is like a sweepstakes ticket, bought by the pathogen, for the prize of a new and more grandiose existence. It's a long-shot chance to transcend the dead end. To go where it hasn't gone and be what it hasn't been. Sometimes the bettor wins big.

the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

is the basic problem the nature of this world itself, or our inability to accept it as it is? Or something else?

My destiny is to create more consciousness. The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. —Jung

All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people are not made to suffer.

She thought the world a charnel house…and couldn't get enough of it. She thought herself unhappy…and wanted to live, unhappy, for as long as she possibly could.

Steel on the skyline Sky made of glass Made for a real world All things must pass Ooo Waiting for something Looking for someone Is there no reason?

Fairy tales do not deny the existence of . . . sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance; it denies (in the face of much evidence if you will) universal final defeat . . . giving a glimpse of Joy, Joy beyond the walls of the world, poignant as grief. —J. R. R. Tolkien

without immortality all would be sham and sport of the most tragic nature.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

They were all helpless. They didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to die. They were made to. But why, in between, did there have to be such pain? Perhaps humankind was more amusing that way. Perhaps they provided entertainment

We are caught together," he said, quoting Henry Beston, "in the net of life and time. We are fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.