Quotes About Existence

Shane rode in a thoughtful silence. He had never much believed in God. He believed in Hell, for he had seen it with his own eyes, but to even think that there was a great and powerful benevolent force watching over mankind, like a distant but loving father, had always struck him as childishly optimistic.

Como el océano, el desierto o los glaciares, tampoco las tapias del cementerio ponen límites a mi existencia puramente imaginaria.

A liberating way to view time, I find, is as splodges lying in clusters all around me. Instead of hopping obediently from link to link along a chain toward extinction, I pause in a puddle of it here and wallow in a pool of it there.

Nuestro planeta viaja por una entidad ilimitada y tridimensional denominada 'espacio

None of us is getting out of here alive.

My death would be noted with nothing more than a headstone bearing the dates of my birth and my death to let the world know I had been here.

Then maybe God exists." Tracy made a face, not following. "I'm sorry?" "'When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die. Sloane

You realize you are like 99.9 percent of the rest of the world, just a cog in the wheel trying to make some sense of where you belong in the incomprehensible grand design of it all. And you realize that people you trust are going to disappoint you, friends will come and go, and those you love will die.

The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that "God" is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, "si comprehendis, non est Deus" (if you understand, that isn't God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: "I am who am.

one's deepest sense of freedom is coincident with an embrace of the God who is the ground of one's being.

But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.

Wenn das Leben eine Illusion ist, dann bin ich es nicht weniger, und somit ist die Illusion für mich Wirklichkeit.

It is always better to live with reality, because otherwise, without fail, reality will come to live with you. —The Aghori Vimalananda

the moment of death is fixed at the moment of birth. Some

It is not dying but deadness we should fear.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

It is the very design of life to support life.

One real thing is closer to God than all the diagrams in the world.

The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even of his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skepticism in four words. Whisper to him: 'Your fly is open.' If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?

All we have is our humanity and affinities, and the hope that these may be enough in this world ["Saving the Whales"].

What motivates a creator? The desire for the creation to exist. A creator creates in order to bring the creation into being. People in the reactive-responsive orientation often have trouble understanding this sensibility: to create for the sake of the creation itself. Not for the praise, not for the "return on investment," not for what it may say about you, but for its own sake.

You're searching... For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings — there are no such things. There are only middles.

I am assured at any rateMan's practically inexterminate.Someday I must go into that.There's always been an AraratWhere someone someone else begatTo start the world all over at.