Quotes About Existence

But as he listened to the moans and cries of those around him, he understood that hope was not a concept of faith meant to bring man closer to God but one of denial and delusion meant to keep him from accepting that God did not exist.

Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

Now is the only thing you can count on, Sam. It's all we really get, she said quietly, and felt that it was the truest thing she'd ever said.

There is no meaning but what we assign. We create our own reality. I can live with that.

Isn't it enough that this world exists?... Wai-Mae asked. No, Ling said. I want to know how it works. I just want to be happy, Wai-Mae said.

Trust me: If God exists, he'll know I'm faking it.

The dead became the living until the living became the dead.

Isn't it enough that this world exists? That we can be everything here that we can't be when we are awake?" Wai-Mae asked. "No," Ling said. "I want to know how it works.

High above it all, the window washers hoist themselves up by the miracle of rope and hover in midair on small planks to clean away the grit of so many dreams discarded. They wipe their cloths until the lives on the other side of the window become clearer. Every now and then, faces appear at these windows. Eyes meet for a second, maybe two, the observed and the observer each surprised to find the other exists. Then they look quickly away, the connection unmade, islands once more.

But what was the point of living so quietly... you made no noise at all

Why are you here?" Marian's

Twinkle Twinkle little star. You are nothing. You've been dead for a thousand years.

Can we love what will swallow us when we are gone? I do.

He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.

This life wasn't all there was; there was more, much more, and when people spoke of death as passing they were exactly right, because the spirit passed on to that other level of existence. Knowing that was the most comforting thing she could imagine.

Unfortunately, what should or should not be had no relation to what was.

Slavegirls' brats, sir, are not heralded by proud fathers in the 'Daily Gazette.' The fact that I exist is marked only by my standing here before you, blood and bone decked out in a new dress. The modern philosophers may grant me a soul, but nobody – lord, nobody – burdens me with a fate to be foreseen!

Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.

I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, "I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, 'I don't know if you or I exist, but somewhere there are poems about us.

I am not, however, militant in my atheism. The great English theoretical physicist Paul Dirac is a militant atheist. I suppose he is interested in arguing about the existence of God. I am not. It was once quipped that there is no God and Dirac is his prophet.

I shall not importune him with any opinion of my own as to why I, at bottom a contemplative soul asking nothing better than to live in peace and to be able to read and to write, have been condemned to lead such a stormy existence so fraught with upheavals.

You did not kill my daughter, Annabelle. You were her best friend. You brought her immeasurable joy. Truth is, none of us control how much time we have here on earth. We can only control the life we lead while we have it. Dori led a loving, gracious, joyful existence. I think of that every morning when I wake up, and I think of it every night before I go to bed. My daughter had seven years of love.