Quotes About Existence

The branch of philosophy that studies existence is metaphysics.

Aristotle maintains that there is only one reality: the world of particulars in which we live, the world men perceive by means of their physical senses.

Reality, declares Hegel, is inherently contradictory;

Do the stars have a meaning? Then my life has a meaning.

The Talmud expresses subtle relationship in an apocryphal story of a dialogue between God and Abraham. God begins by chiding Abraham: "If it wasn´t for Me, you wouldn´t exist."Lord, and for that I am very appreciative and grateful. However, if it wasn´t for me, You wouldn´t be known.

On ignorance depends karma; on karma depends consciousness; on consciousness depend name and form; on name and form depend the five organs of sense; on the five organs of sense depends contact; on contact depends sensation; on sensation depends desire; on desire depends clutching; on clutching depends existence; on existence depends birth; on birth depend old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, grief and despair. —The Buddha's twelvefold concatenation of cause and effect

God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays. —A.W. TOZER112

Our life is made by the death of others.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come

Noi tutti siamo esiliati entro lo cornici di uno strano quadro. Chi sa questo, viva da grande, Gli altri sono insetti.

sooner will there exist a body without a shadow than virtue unaccompanied by envy.

i thought i was learning to live but i was learning to die

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I expose to men the origin of their first, and perhaps second, reason for existing

We do not lack devices for measuring these miserable days of ours, in which it should be our pleasure that they be not frittered away without leaving behind any memory of ourselves in the mind of men.

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of god or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention

For I know that there are numberless people who, in order to gratify one of their appetites, would destroy God and the whole of the universe. If this art has never remained among men, although so necessary to them, it never existed, and never will exist.

She was thinking of many things, for to her the thread of life was not broken by Death, but kept winding along calmly and evenly.

Sanki ayn? baÅŸlang?çs?z ve bitimsiz günün içindeydik, kah karanl?k kah parlak, ama yine anla??lmaz, yine kör. Ve hiçbirimiz korkmuyorduk ölümden, çünkü ölümün ne olduÄŸunu anlayacak durumda deÄŸildik.

True, we might never have arrived, but the fact is we did. If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worth worrying about so much.

I began to feel the pleasure of the weightless state between here and there.

The loneliness became more and more unbearable. I ached to be touched. I feared I was disappearing and I'd cease to exist if someone didn't touch me.