Quotes About Existence

Every passing moment is the passing of life; every moment of life is life itself.

When she's in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.

There is no life without death. This is the true meaning of yin and yang.

Dad was the biological vessel who helped put my soul into this body

When she is in the sea, she's in the womb of the world.

Every tree has a soul.

The first law states that energy can change form but cannot be created or destroyed." "Okay." "So, we—our bodies, our spirits or whatever—it's pure energy. To me, that means we have always been here, and we always will be, just taking different forms.

The past is gone. The future is a fantasy. There is only the breath, the moment.

What did it really mean to love someone? Did it have to last forever to have existed at all?

It's such a female thing, to reflexively apologize for everything, for your very existence it sometimes seems.

There's stardust in our bones.

The mind is infinitely larger than the world it inhabits. There is more to the human brain than machinery or meat. I believe in the soul, I thought suddenly. Everything I know about the brain tells me not to, but I believe in it still.

In my sleepwalking years, I learned the existence of another dimension. I do not inhabit it any longer. But somehow, it continues to inhabit me.

Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us?

Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4

In this secular view of the universe, God, along with his heavenly dwelling-place, has lost objective reality. There is no need to postulate a supernatural

Didn't life consist of the things you did each day?

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

It's important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death.

The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but gradually. And yet it seemed to work for them somehow. They made it work, pretending a government into existence. Perhaps all governments were all consensus fictions at their hearts.

Learn everything that existed in the universe, and whatever was left, that dwarfish-man-shaped hole in the center, would be him by process of elimination.

He claims that the gods, and we, are both right here all the time, a shadow's thickness apart. We've no distance to cross at all to get to each other.