Quotes About Existence

that this must be the earliest science-fiction story still in existence, for surely the tale of a quest for an immortality serum qualifies as science fiction.

He often has followed current fads and modes in an attempt to affiliate himself more firmly with the structures of contemporary existence.

El yo soñado que dormía no notaba la presencia de Halum, pero el yo soñado que observaba la percibía, y yo, el verdadero soñador, los percibía a los dos, y también percibía que todo lo que estaba viendo me llegaba en una visión.

Somewhere Dostoevsky has written, "Without God, all things are possible." I can amend that. "To the invisible man, all things are possible—and uninteresting.

It is a good thing, The Man in the Maze will suggest, that we are insulated from each other: we are wounded by living, by mere existence, and we could not stand the stink of each other's souls.

Living, we fret. Dying, we live.

But our lives are the reasons why we want to live another time

Words form thoughts, thoughts form realities, and realities become life.

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

We came to the comforting conclusion that the Creator probably knew how to run His universe quite as well as we do, and that, after all, there are no such things as 'wasted' lives, saving and except when am individual wilfully squanders and wastes his own life...

What a splendid day!' said Anne, drawing a long breath. 'Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Dear old world. You are very lovely and I am glad to be alive in you - Anne Shirley

I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it.

What a splendid day! Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one.

Nothing seems worthwhile. My very thoughts are old. I've thought them all before. What is the use of living after all, Anne?

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence would probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not

She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.

Marilla felt this and was vaguely troubled over it, realizing that the ups and downs of existence woudl probably bear hardly on this impulsive soul and not sufficiently understanding that the equally great capacity for delight might more than compensate.

You see — I've never had any real life. I've just — breathed.

Beyond those ten minutes there did not seem, just then, to be anything worth being called Time.

Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived?

I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?

It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?