Quotes About Existence

We are the lucky ones for we shall die, as there is an infinite number of possible forms of DNA all but a few billions of which will never burst into consciousness.

We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval ur-matter, atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.

We are made of atoms. With each breath you inhale a million billion billion atoms of oxygen, which gives some idea of how small each one is. All of them, together with the carbon atoms in your skin, and indeed everything else on Earth, were cooked in a star some 5 billion years ago. So you are made of stuff that is as old as the planet, one-third as old as the universe, though this is the first time that those atoms have been gathered together such that they think that they are you.

So what do you do while you're living? Staying alive is nice, but you can't do that forever. It's how you live the life you have while you have it.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

We have eternity, beloved. You may have eternity. I have only now. But this is eternity.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

Life isn't a problem to be solved. But a reality to be experienced.

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

Is God troubled?" And her companion replied: "The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.

The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251

There is the difference between us," he said. "You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.

Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.

Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.