Quotes About Existence

People have no idea of the things that don't happen to them—the lives they're not living, the deaths stalking them—and thank Christ for that. Hard enough to get through each day without glimpsing all the hovering possibilities, like insects thickening the air.

Who knows what we all are before anything happens?

I thought humans were or weren't, I didn't know someone could be a bit human. Then what are his other bits?

No sabía que las cosas pudieran estar vivas a medias. Aunque tampoco sabía que los retratos tuvieran vida dentro.

But if there's no heaven what remains?

Grandma says there's more of him. What? Persons like him, in the world. Ah, says Ma. Is it true? Yeah. But the tricky thing is, there's far more people in the middle. Where? Ma's staring out the window but I don't know at what. Somewhere between good and bad, she says. Bits of both stuck together.

But was Anna nearer to starved or nearer to well? How to quantify the quality of being alive?

You can't be a little bit dead. If you're not in the ground yet, you're one hundred per cent alive.

Trust me, the island must have water, since we need it to live. This place was set aside for us when the earth was made.

Maybe history really boiled down to how the hell did we happen to happen?

It depends on the monster, if it's a real one or not and if it's where I am.

We intersect. He says he thanks every star that we existed on the same celestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man-made throughway for intersecting dreams.

He says he thanks every star the we existed on the same clestial plain. But here we are on earth, dirty, well used, a man made throughaway for intersecting dreams.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

I discovered that those who want their property to be respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradise and hell, and in keeping the people in ignorance

I believed in God; but when I saw so great an inequality between men, I acknowledged that it was not God who created man, but man who created God.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

Sin haber sido un sueño tu vida es un campo perfecto para el estudio in situ de la irrealidad

Nobody's death is impending. ...Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox . If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back. - Artemis Fowl

Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

It's a strange feeling not to know who you are exactly.