Quotes About Existence

I like to think we're not the only thing that exists on the plane of existence. I like to think that just because we don't see it doesn't mean it's not there.

Now is the only thing that exists.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

I am not that big of a fantasy person. I prefer myself to think of living in the real world.

I'm interested in the real world.

The real world is horrible.

When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real people. Not the people of your imagination. Not the people you wish people would be. But people as they exist actually out there in the real world.

The benefit of having a story that takes place in the real world is that you don't have to invent the real world. It exists.

I have to make an effort about things like going to the grocery store. That stuff reminds me that I don't live in the real world, and you know what? I'm thankful.

Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

The human condition is endlessly fascinating to me, and the existential horrors of life are what drive our imaginations and theater in general.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

As a theist I believe that God exists and that God creates.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. —Henry David Thoreau

In picking up a rock I could no longer simply say, 'This is a rock,' I could now say, 'This is part of a net,' or closer, 'This, which everything acts upon, acts.' When this way of thinking became ordinary for me, I too became lost in the net and the boundaries of myself stretched out for ever.