Quotes About Existence

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

Many modern people have gone so far in their dependence on others for their feeling of reality that they are afraid that without it they would lose the sense of their own existence.

My view, as one who taught it, is that the whole purpose of a literary education should be to tell people that these things exist. I don't think any teacher should try to 'teach an author,' but rather simply describe what the author has written. And this is what I tried to do.

Novels describe what it means to be alive at a given moment.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

I believe that energy can't be destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another. There's more to life than we can conceive of.

I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.

My faith and reason tell me that God created the world, and I'm not particularly interested in the details. I'll find out when I meet my Maker.

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

If it wasn't for the devil, we wouldn't be here, would we?

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?

I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being that important.

This is exactly why Barstool Sports has to exist. We're one of the few places - maybe the only place - on the Internet where we don't let agendas dictate what we do.

Death is a word in the dictionary. I don't believe in that word. I think the most appropriate word is 'departure' because we are energy and you can't create or destroy energy, you can only change its form.

To live is to die.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Take away our things, and something in us dies.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

According to liberals, I'm not supposed to exist. I know that I am going to be a target for the Left. I have something to say to them: 'Game On.'

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.