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Quotes About Existence

How we live is all that matters,not who made us,or out of what parts! Free will is what we make of it!
~ Yukito Kishiro
I am the drop that contains the ocean
~ Yunus Emre
To love the world is to be afflicted.
~ Yunus Emre
Ölür ise ten ölür, canlar ölesi de?il" (Only the body dies, souls can never be slain)
~ Yunus Emre
Ölür ise ten ölür, canlar ölesi de?il
~ Yunus Emre
Ask those who know, what's this soul within the flesh? Reality's own power. What blood fills these veins? Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. These sighs are love's clothing. Who is the Khan on the throne? Give thanks for His unity. He created when nothing existed. And since we are actually nothing, what are all of Solomon's riches? Ask Yunus and Taptuk what the world means to them. The world won't last. What are You? What am I?
~ Yunus Emre
I am this space my body believes in.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Sometimes there are more tears than laughter, and sometimes there is more laughter than tears, and sometimes you feel so choked you can neither weep nor laugh. For tears and laughter there will always be so long as there is human life. When our tear wells have run dry and the voice of laughter is silenced, the world will be truly dead.
~ yutang lin
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
~ yutang lin ii
The first principle of monotheist religions is 'God exists. What does He want from me?' The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The first thing you need to know about yourself is that you are not a story.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
More than a century after Nietzsche pronounced Him dead, God seems to be making a comeback. But this is a mirage. God is dead – it's just taking a while to get rid of the body.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is. Though
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The universe just does not work like a story.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
God is dead – it's just taking a while to get rid of the body.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
the real enigma of life is not what happens after you die but what happens before you die.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
the realest thing in the world is suffering.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The deeper the mysteries of the universe, the less likely it is that whatever is responsible for them gives a damn about female dress codes or human sexual behavior.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google. Bypassing
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Perhaps I am the only being in the entire universe who feels anything, and all other humans and animals are just mindless robots? Perhaps I am dreaming, and everyone I meet is just a character in my dream? Perhaps I am trapped inside a virtual world, and all the beings I see are merely simulations?
~ Yuval Noah Harari
they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.
~ Yuval Noah Harari