Quotes About Existence

For months we had been talking of him and him alone, and yet it was difficult to believe in his existence — he was more like a legend to us — and quite a few of us were convinced that the authorities had invented him, him and his elephants, to distract attention from the political unrest that was the real cause of trouble in the Oule country.

You have a very special personal relationship with God, Mathieu. You're the kind of atheist who can't forgive God for NOT existing, and who gives the impression that in your eyes the only scientific discovery truly worthy of man's genious would be the discovery of God.

Men sometimes die much earlier than they are burried.

Of course her mind was never a hundred per cent at rest, because for that you've got to be dead. Life is always a panic.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India!

In life, more than in anything else, it isn't easy to end up alive.

When I touched her body, I believed she was God. In the curves of her form I found the birth of Man, the creation of the world, and the origin of all life.

We all die in the middle of something.

I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.

He had been searching for it his entire life. He had devoted himself to poetry to find it. Now, in the middle of his life, he found it. It was in the face of the love of his life, his daughter. She who had never blushed before, now blushed. And in that blushing, he knew, was the existence of God. That was the day her father learned what God was. God was pure beauty, God was his daughter's face when she blushed.

Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?

the believer enters into the reality of Mary's spiritual motherhood and her existing as the first person to have benefitted from the salvation wrought by her Son.

Death is a thing of beauty, but equally a destroyer of beauty. That is the paradox that we are left with.

Your living or dying is just a piss in the ocean.

The tortures occur," he wrote. "If they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict them if they weren't.

The tortures occur," he wrote. "If they are unnecessary, then there is no God, or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary for no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't.

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

Nothing is but what is now

And darkness. You can't see it no more than you can see air, but when it's all around you sure enough know it.

Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.

Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there" (Psalm 139:7-8).

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