Quotes About Existence

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Life is short, and every moment is precious.

Life is precious.

Life is precious - very, very precious.

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

Take life for what it is, which is very precious, and that's what moments happen.

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.

What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

I always start with the assumption that everything that happens in the world is actually in the world. It sounds like an obvious thing to say, but it's a very powerful methodological premise.

Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.