Quotes About Existence

the way time here feels simultaneously immense and tiny.

We are all just tenants here. Even the one thing we believe is ours—the time we're given on earth—does that belong to us?

Did time move forward, through people, or did people move forward through it, like clouds across the sky?

Don't you want to be alive before you die?

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?

What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models... None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes.

Copak nechcete žít, než umÃ…â"¢ete?

Art reveals to us the mysteries of our existence, or perhaps reveals to us for the first time that there are mysteries at all.

To be free is not to live in no place and at no time but to live in one place as in the shadow of all places, and to live in one time as in the morning twilight of eternity.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

The Republic is nothing," he said crossly, "a mere name without form or substance.

What I am is a thinking soul, not a piece of matter, and I know about this soul and its thoughts better than I know about any physical thing. Because

The difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with God's alleged omnipotence and mercy has, it can plausibly be argued, defeated every orthodox theologian in the history of monotheism.

Just as nothing can be said to be either contrary to or in accordance with God's will, so nothing is either good or bad from God's perspective, which is to say from the point of view of nature or the universe as a whole:

God, or nature, has no use for such categories as good and bad.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

I love life because what more is there?

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

Bei den Frauen gibt es nur zwei Möglichkeiten. Entweder sie sind Engel. Oder sie leben noch.

He hadn't done anything. He hadn't needed to. Just being there was enough.

There are two worlds. The world you understand and the world you don't. These worlds exist side by side, sometimes only centimeters apart, and the great majority of people spend their entire lives in one without being aware of the other. It's like living in one side of a mirror: you think there is nothing on the other side until one day a switch is thrown and suddenly the mirror is transparent. You see the other side.

He had known then, not that he had ever doubted it, that even if God existed He preferred not to listen, and all the stars, crosses and crescent moons in the world would not make an iota of difference.

Do geese see God?

What exactly was the point? And more pertinently, what the hell was I doing here? How had I allowed my life to come to this?