Quotes About Existence

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns — small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track.

There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

Art is pain. And so is life.

history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary - made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn't whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it's whether or not you want to.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up to the sky, because everything we're made of, even the hemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

But I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

Here's a secret," I said. "There's a difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.

Being temporary doesn't make something matter any less, because the point isn't for how long, the point is that it happened.

I'm the one erased. Or I guess I'm not even that, because the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

But the thing was:although I might not have been dying,I wasn't really living,either

Except that's the thing about dying, or experiencing death. It happens, but it's never over.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up at the sky, because everything we're made of, even the haemoglobin in our blood, comes from the moment before a star dies.

the thing about being erased is that first you have to leave a mark.

I read once that we're all just dead stars looking back up at the sky...I don't know why I was thinking about that, but it made a lot of sense right then that stars glow so brightly in their instant of death...

Here's a secret," I said. "There's a difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spent a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

There's a difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it.

Sadie me sonrió, y yo tuve la sensación de que el universo se sostenía gracias a ella.

discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.

but I didn't care, because the magnificent possibility of kissing Cassidy Thorpe had turned into an indisputable fact of my daily existence...

The essence of modernity is to deny that there are any transcendent stories, structures, habits, or beliefs to which individuals must submit and that should bind our conduct. To be modern is to be free to choose. What is chosen does not matter; the meaning is in the choice itself. There is no sacred order, no other world, no fixed virtues and permanent truths. There is only here and now and the eternal flame of human desire. Volo ergo sum—I want, therefore I am.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

A church that looks and talks and sounds just like the world has no reason to exist. A church that does not emphasize asceticism and discipleship is as pointless as a football coaching staff that doesn't care if its players show up for practice. And though liturgy by itself is not enough, a church that neglects to involve the body in worship is going to find it increasingly difficult to get bodies into services on Sunday morning as America moves further into post-Christianity.