Quotes About Existence

The only difference was, you could play the music again and again; a life plays only once.

And now he was dead. She didn't know how, or what had killed him, just that his body had ceased to exist.

For in the figure of Christ we are confronted with an atomic event that does not destroy the world, but rather obliterates the way in which we exist within the world. In concrete terms, this means that the darkness and dissatisfaction that make their presence felt in our lives are not finally answered by certainty and satisfaction but are rather stripped of their weight and robbed of their sting.

it can be said that God is not seen but is testified to in a particular way of seeing. Previously we saw how the Idol is experienced as existing, until we grasp it and discover that it doesn't. Here God is felt not to exist, and yet by this act of calling everything into existence it seems that the moment we stop trying to grasp God the existence of God is indirectly testified to in the existence of everything we encounter.

The event testified to within Christianity is evident in a life that has been freed from an idolatrous existence that turns us from the world to an iconic engagement with the world.

Christian faith teaches us, if we are sensitive and able to be taught, that the seemingly opposite and opposed realms of radical doubt and absolute certainty are reconciled in a knowing beyond knowledge. There is no doubt for the believer that God dwells with us (as an event), yet there is a deep uncertainty about who, what, or even if God is (as a being).

For the Word, if it exists at all, does not simply dwell in the ink that marks the pages of the Bible and cannot be isolated in a dissection of the story into its constituent parts.

The Word is formed only when it is performed; it exists in the world only when it is lived out by a subject who dwells fully in the world. Is this not the logic of incarnation?

Therefore, Lord, you are not merely that than which a greater cannot be thought; you are something greater than can be thought. For since it is possible to think that such a being exists, then if you are not that being, it is possible to think something greater than you. But that is impossible.

For Anselm there are three levels of existence. The first, and lowest, level is that which exists only in the mind (for instance, a unicorn). The second refers to those things that exist both in the mind and in reality (such as a horse). The third level is that which exists in reality but which cannot be contained in the mind (i.e. God). It is this third level of existence that has often been overlooked by the Church, and yet it is here that we find God.

Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.

Observing the Sabbath, we affirm: "God is the center and source of our lives. He is the beginning, the middle, and the end of our existence." We trust God to provide and care for us.

You are lovable. You are good. It is so good that you exist.

Dove finisce uno Stato e dove inizia l'io? Siamo di nuovo qualcuno. In questa frase disturba quel 'di nuovo'. Per diventare finalmente qualcuno, bisogna prima essere stati nessuno.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me, but I had it surgically removed

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Look! Life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods.

What shall I say to you who will one day hear this last act for yourselves? You will—because whatever else shall pass away, this must remain.

It both sustains and kills—like a God.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Oh, you monster!No one exists but you, do they? You and your music!

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

The human being does not hop out of the magician's hat in the way that the ape climbs down from the tree; he also does not emerge from the hand of a creator who surveys everything in advance with his foreknowledge. He is the product of a production that is not itself a human being. The human being was not yet what he would become before he became it.