Quotes About Existence

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.

With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.

We here a blink of an eye, even if we make it 75, 80 years, you still here a blink of an eye. Enjoy it.

We share something in common with the fabric of the whole universe that connects us.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.

I hate to think life is just facts and laws.

Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake.

When you're falling through space time has no meaning.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

Teenagers are philosophers. They are thinking about the big things like existence and identity at a time when their identities are changing so fast.

I believe in Father Frost. But not too deeply. But anyway, you know, I'm not one of those people who are able to tell the kids that Father Frost does not exist.

Telling a story is the way of exploring so many different things - human behavior, society, whatever existence.