Quotes About Existence

If we are incapable of controlling our existence, life loses its meaning, too.

Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

La trama è roba per gente morta.

The happiness equation, it seems, is to be stupid, unconscious, and a slave to God. Then God will love you and everything will be perfect. It's amazing how many people love that equation. It's basically the equation that rules the lives of dogs! If you want to keep your freedom then you must kill God! That's the only way. God must die so that God may live – the new God. To repeat, God is dead, long live the new God.

When Nietzsche said, "God is dead", he himself immediately replaced God with a new God, the Superman. Who would bother with Nietzsche's philosophy if he pronounced God dead and then hanged himself? Nietzsche immediately resurrected God, hence God was never dead. God is always ready to be re-expressed. It's not the concept of God that's wrong, it's the concept of the wrong God, wrongly defined and understood.

There must be something beyond your existence. Now people endlessly dwell on their own issues and identity. There is nothing beyond that, no higher cause, no greater calling. And that's exactly why they are so depressed, so disenchanted. What could be worse than being your own 'god'? You can be sure no one will ever worship you. What's to worship?

Some people believe that explanations which do not involve matter are supernatural. In fact, material explanations are themselves supernatural. How can lifeless matter produce life? There's nothing natural about that. How can mindless matter produce mind? What's natural about that? How can temporal and contingent matter come into existence in the first place? You can't get existence from non-existence. That's logic 101.

Mind can easily explain matter. Matter cannot explain mind at all. How do you get to mind from mindless matter? It's impossible. But mind can create "matter", or what passes as matter, routinely. It does it every time we dream.

When we start to realize that we're not going to be here forever, we become aware that it's not clear what it meant to be here at all.

as far as Buzz is concerned, the universe is two things: me and not me.

It may be that places exist in order that memory itself has a home.

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being... Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

A lifetime may not be long enough to attune ourselves fully to the harmony of the universe. But just to become aware that we can resonate with it -- that alone can be like waking up from a dream.

After all, how could I be a person if Ultimate Reality were impersonal?

Perhaps it's all an animal existence,' he said. He had to raise his voice above the rattle of the bus. Below them passed the dark waters of the river.

The environment is so fundamental to our continued existence that it must transcend politics and become a central value of all members of society.

The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.

If Dulles could use a person, that person was somehow real for him. If not, that person didn't exist.

I was eternally earthbound, a witness but no prophet.

What is life?" he mused. "It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

que las personas nacen como nace una canción, que suena de pronto. No naces bajo un cálculo, sino en una cascada de accidentes y azares, lo que debería ayudarnos a vivir con mayor levedad y no lo contrario. Las raíces se convierten en algo primario, porque nos atornillan al mundo. Pero las raíces no dejan volar.

life is precious. Every moment is precious

I'm too young to die.

What if you knew, now, that you wouldn't leave anything behind. That you couldn't leave anything behind. That no one will remember you, and no one will have anything to remember you by. That you are, in fact, just someone who was there, and that's it.