Quotes About Existence

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

Roxanne Bland, The Underground

Fiction is the evidence that reality exists

Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us

Life is chemistry, not biology.

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows.

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

A beautiful smile without any reason is the smile of the existence!

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

It was the smile of a man who is able to see, to know and to create the glory of existence. It was the mocking, challenging smile of a brilliant intelligence.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

What has life given me? The beginning is fire, the end is a heap of ashes, and between the end and the beginning lies all the pain in the world.