Quotes About Existence

Photographs don't discriminate between the living and the dead. In the fragments of time and shards of light that compose them, everyone is equal. Now you see us; now you don't. It doesn't matter whether you look through a camera lens and press the shutter. It doesn't even matter whether you open your eyes or close them. The pictures are always there. And so are the people in them.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

like gravity, beauty is a force whose existence is inferred from its apparent effects.

For time, which can extend and magnify you, cannot liberate you from the confines of your skin or alter nature from its enduring shape.

All things in the sun are sun.

What is the sound of a soul made of numbers?

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

The object of painting a picture is-however unreasonable that may sound... The object which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. The picture is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of that state.

It would drive a man mad to apprehend the whole tragedy, to know every effect and consequence, to know the names of every good man and woman, every genius and every saint, who was never born because their lineage petered out there on that rise at Franklin.

the Catholic Faith, more certain to him than the existence of himself: it was true and alive. He might be damned, but God reigned.

These things were as the bones of the Universe—facts beyond doubting—if they were not true, nothing anywhere was anything but a dream.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Such a long long time to be gone and a short time to be there

In the realm of the phenomenal, "less is more" only when less is the sum total of more.

Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

For we are His creation—created

Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.

Es nuestra concepción de la muerte lo que determina nuestras respuestas a todas las preguntas que la vida nos plantea.

I have described to you why God must exist—or, at least, must have at one time existed—in mathematical terms that come as close to certainty as anything in science possibly could. And still you deny his existence." The pain was growing worse. It would subside, of course. "Yes," I said. "I deny God's existence.

God was the programmer. The laws of physics and the fundamental constants were the source code.