Quotes About Existence

The need of God's heart resulted in him creating mankind

The dead worry the living because their silence reminds us how little the great comedies and tragedies in our lives matter and how little the universe would care if we'd never lived at all." -- Nara

A human life is a story told by God.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

To me, it was clear proof of the existence of supersymmetry, the idea that every particle has a partner. She was mine.

Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

At the same time, it has also reinforced the mind-body dualism to the point of producing the illusion, so powerfully propagated in cyberspace, that human beings have freed themselves from their material circumstances to the point where they have become floating personalities "decoupled from a body.

And to imagine other forms of human existence is exactly the challenge that is posed by the climate crisis: for if there is one thing that global warming has made perfectly clear it is that to think about the world only as it is amounts to a formula for collective suicide. We need, rather, to envision what it might be.

I felt all of existence swelling in my veins. Letting my umbrella drop, I flung back my head to open myself to the wind and the suns. It was as though in the course of one night I had cast away the emptiness I had so long held in my arms.

Her mind seemed to have no room for anything but the crowded eventlessness of her everyday life.

So to say that you don't believe in the supernatural is a contradiction in terms - because it means that you also don't believe in the natural. Neither can exist without the other.' 'Oh come on', I said impatiently. 'That's just semantics'. 'Yes, you're right. But the whole world is made up of semantics and yours are those of the seventeenth century. Even though you think you are modern.

The day life appeared on Earth, death appeared with it.

a nutshell, the choice is between going through this life awake or in a kind of stupor.

remember the vertiginous sense of time within time within time, and the whole host of heaven trying on, blending, and hurting the innumerable hues of light just after the sun has set

Un bourgeon, une feuille morte, la mort et la vie Le fruit du hasard, non, un principe établi

But why write about things that exist even without you? Why describe in words things that are not words?

I am not quite myself, I think. But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.

while the world worlds up at us."   I

There is the world as it exists, and then, just next to it, the world one creates in order to exist. The boundaries limited only by ones imagination.

HAPPINESS I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left. There is nothing disconcerting or unpleasant or unfortunate about this moment. It is exceptionally nice, plain, and perfect.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

A moment is not the same as time.