Quotes About Existence

Why is man man? As long as we have had minds to think with, stars to ponder upon, dreams to disturb us, curiosity to inspire us, hours free for meditation, words to place our thoughts in order, the question like a restless ghost has prowled the cellars of our consciousness.

Always remember; wherever you go; there you are!

The source of all life warms the living for a moment, holding them briefly before they go back to wasting their lives.

His membership in the human race was entirely accidental and unsolicited.

God is not one more intelligible object among many, not a supreme existing thing among other existing things, not simply the highest value alongside other ethical goods. Rather, God is that which is intelligible in itself, that which exists through the power of its own essence, that which is good by its very nature.

I am very sorry, Aidan, but you have been asleep - or dead, depending on your point of view - for three thousand years.

why do we personify time? Is it because we're afraid to admit that our lives are measured by an abstract force that neither knows nor cares about our entry into existence? Or our departure into death? Time is our mysterious master giving it a face and hands we attempt to transform it into our servant.

Death comes for us all; even at our birth-- even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. It is the law of nature, and the will of God.

I am used to hear bad men misuse the name of God, yet God exists.

I'm breathing . . . are you breathing too? It's nice, isn't it?

Time is a figure eight, at its center the city of Déjà vu.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.

In a dark moment I ask, "How can anyone bring a child into this world?" And the answer rings clear, "Because there is no other world, and because the child has no other way into it."

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don't you wonder who sent the flowers?

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

Sometimes, as practice for trying to convince myself that God exists, I try to convince my shadow that the sun exists.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?