Quotes About Existence

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

Facts are lonely things

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.

We'd insist that all truth was relative, that there was no reality without signifiers, that there was no there there, that nothing, in fact, really existed.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Life is trying to kill us," she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

There has always been philosophical speculation on the question, What if there were no God? Keller thinks as he walks through the slush. But no one has really asked, much less answered, the question, What if there were no Satan?

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

As in life itself." Xue Xin chuckled. "Are we its guest, or its prisoner?

Luis hopes for heaven. Keller fears hell. Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

as Einstein put it 'Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.

Conscious realism makes a bold claim: consciousness, not spacetime and its objects, is fundamental reality and is properly described as a network of conscious agents.

There are as many cubes as there are observers constructing cubes. And when you look away, your cube ceases to be.

Which raises a perplexing question: What about the big bang? Didn't it happen 13 billion 799 million years ago, before any observers?

Physics and evolution point to the same conclusion: spacetime and objects are not foundational. Something else is more fundamental, and spacetime emerges from it.

That's a geometric figure, that bird, he don't exist without an angle.

Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.

There is only one way to come into this world there are too many ways to leave it.

The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112