Quotes About Existence

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

Bill Haskell was real.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

I've been present at birth, and death is just as present and in equal balance. And I've been present at death, and birth is just as present, again in equal balance.

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

I don't have birthdays.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

I spent five years in Dublin as a stand-up, living on pea sandwiches. But at times I quite enjoyed the bohemian penniless existence.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

At times I think and at times I am.

You exist only in what you do.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

My only success is that I am alive.

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to me that he clearly had to know that there was such a thing as organized crime and organized criminals as far back as the '20s.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.