Quotes About Existence

We all scream because we are alive.

We look away until we have no choice. Then we examine them, remember them, and look away again, as if we're not meant to think too much about them, but to live. Just live and forget.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

She thought about her life and how lost she'd felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she'd been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet. What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

The universe was infinite, and there were most likely an infinite number of universes. To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

humankind's fundamental understanding of the nature of reality. If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn't the universe require consciousness to even exist?

this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

Some of your human religious philosophers have conjectured that the need for external stimulation is the very reason God created the universe, and humanity, in the first place. To have a purpose. To combat loneliness. To ensure there is something that exists outside of itself.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why they call it the present.

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence. The ASI's war with the Androms helped bring this into proper focus. Winning

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye." —Shana Alexander

Reality was only rendered when it was observed. Particles were everywhere, until someone peeked, and then they took a discrete location.

To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

I'm more inclined to believe in God because of our insignificance next to nature, rather than because we're so special.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

Struggle, purpose, accomplishment, and challenge are what truly brings meaning to existence.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." —Albert Einstein

She was especially interested in finding a way to rule in, or rule out, the existence of a soul. Above all else, this was the most fundamental question posed by the capabilities her father's technology made possible. His results so far seemed to indicate that one didn't exist. But absence of proof was not the same as proof of absence.

Douglas E. Richards

It was so easy to get mired down in the day-to-day struggles of life, and lose sight of the wonders of existence. How often did most people take just a few minutes to go outside at night and gaze skyward, to marvel at the tiny piece of the cosmos viewable from Earth? To contemplate the infinity of the universe and the complexity and brilliance of Nature in all its endless forms?

Now that she had achieved a truly transcendent plane of thought she was sure of only one thing: she understood absolutely nothing! The universe was infinite, and there were most likely an infinite number of universes. To sit on one tiny planet in an ocean of infinite infinities and believe you understood anything about the true nature of existence and reality was absurd.

When it comes to the existence of UFOs, we've reached a tipping point. The burden of proof used to be on the believers to prove that UFOs are real. Now the burden of proof has shifted to the government and military to prove that they're not real. Because the evidence is overwhelming." —Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics, City College of New York