Quotes About Existence

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

On your journey, don't forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you're alive. You can only live in one day.

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures that know that we will die, but that is a gift. It's important because we know we have to take advantage and squeeze life and understand why we're here in the first place.

I don't take for granted that I wake up. I appreciate it when I do, those times when it still happens.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

I was absolutely blown away when I first talked to Lisa Joy and Jonah Nolan at how ambitious they wanted 'Westworld' to be in looking at the drives that are leading human beings over the cliff of existence.

I've talked to ghosts once. For me, it makes sense for them to be real because of physics. In physics, you can't destroy energy; it can only be conserved.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.

but there is in me something that feeds on the now of things.

Every soul belongs to God and exists by His pleasure. God being who and what He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full Lordship on His part and complete submission on ours. We owe Him every honor that is in our power to give Him. Our everlasting grief lies in giving Him anything less." —A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God 4

Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.

Light staggers through the trees. Every moment is filled with other moments.

We will spend the rest of the day inventing a kind of love that no longer exists in the world, a kind of love no army can pillage at the outposts, no rumor could bring to its knees like a traitor.

stars that turn slowly off each dawn so that we begin to see how many things can go on living without us, — Richard Jackson, from "Triptych," Broken Horizons: Poems (Press 53, 2018)