Quotes About Existence

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

We pop into existence and we know that we die and we know that we lose everyone that we love and we know we even lose our own bodies. And what a paradigm. What a mystery.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

In the late 1940s, there weren't any pop stars, and TV didn't exist.

It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

There's so much positivity in the world and your day-to-day life that to go as far as to say that you hate something or you wish it didn't exist and all the bad things in the world happen to you and only you, it's a joke. It's not real to have that much hate in your heart.

There is nothing called negative character. The negativity and positivity exists in all of us.

Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something - a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.

Within each of us dwells a higher order of consciousness created with a possibility far greater than to merely appear and disappear as some form in the river of passing time.

I think there will always be a possibility that God doesn't exist because He is infinitude and into that infinitude must come that possibility.

We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

What do people want? Contact. People want to be able to see you and touch you. Are you real?

It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive feels absurd.

Life can't die. It's a contradiction.

We all live with contradictions.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.