Quotes About Existence

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.

I believe art is a way to attune to what reality is, which is a weird reality.

It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.

It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

A nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

You only get one life, so you might as well feel all the feelings.

It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds - and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

I certainly believe that what we perceive as humans is just the tip of the iceberg. I don't necessarily believe in vampires or werewolves or that kind of thing, but I believe there is definitely a realm we don't necessarily have access to.

The idea that Buddhism denies what is called in the West 'individual immortality' is a mistake, so far as the Buddhist scriptures are concerned.

Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

I see that not everyone in the West has understood that the Soviet Union has disappeared from the political map of the world and that a new country has emerged with new humanist and ideological principles at the foundation of its existence.

Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?