Quotes About Existence

I have attempted briefly here to set forth a view of the arts which does not separate them from the rest of life, but rather confuses the difference between Art and Life.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.

Every something is an echo of nothing

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

Life and Death are just things you do when you're bored. - Fear (is a Man's Best Friend)

We are already dead but not yet in the ground. - Fear

Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God's essence when it cannot even get to its own?

They who take it amiss that the world was not sooner   created, may as well expostulate with God for not having made   innumerable worlds.

Section 1. The knowledge of God being manifested to all makes the reprobate without excuse. Universal belief and acknowledgement of the existence of God. That there exists in the human minds and indeed by natural instinct, some sense of Deity, we hold to be beyond dispute, since God himself, to

Can we   conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his   own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

It is, indeed, true for pagans that the greatest blessing is not to be born, and the next, to die immediately.

From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal. Moreover

Even the wicked themselves, therefore, are an example of the fact that some idea of God always exists in every human mind.

Consequently, we know the most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of his essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate him in his works whereby he renders himself near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates himself.

I was here on earth because I chose to be.

Hell is the denial of the ordinary...

There is nothing but poetry about the existence of childhood real simple soul-moving poetry the laughter and joy of poetry and not its philosophy and there is nothing of poetry about manhood but the reflection and the remembrance of what has been—nothing more

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love's frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed