Quotes About Existence

What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

We're all just trying to get through the day.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

After all, the goal of non-binary identity is never to "pass" as a singular gender but rather, by our very existence, challenge and deconstruct the ways assumptions and presuppositions about gender altogether

For most of its existence, Christianity has been the most intolerant of world faiths, doing its best to eliminate all competitors, with Judaism a qualified exception, for which (thanks to some thoughts from Augustine of Hippo) it found space to serve its own theological and social purposes.

la lógica no existe, Miyuki, no hay lógica, no hay dioses, todo lo hace la casualidad, y lo hace bien.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world

Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end. He sees that his life is determined by these two facets, of which he knows only that he does not know them

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt with us, and there he still deals with us, our needs and our sins, in judgment and grace.

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept,[10] but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

God is never in the world in any way except in his absolute transcendence of it.

But because Jesus is the Christ, it has to be made clear from the beginning that his word is not a doctrine . Instead, it creates existence anew.

Without God, all seeing and perceiving of things and laws become abstraction, a separation from both origin and goal.

A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol

Humility involves the full knowledge of our status as creatures, a clear consciousness of having received everything we have from God.

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

When some great teachers of the past reflected on the rarity of human existence, they did not even feel like sleeping; they could not bear to waste a single moment. They put all their energy into spiritual practice.

Dès l'instant de la naissance, la vie se précipite vers la mort en ignorant tout à fait quand la rencontre aura lieu.