Quotes About Existence

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

We don't just treasure our memories; we are our memories

The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

The body is not a product. It is an experience.

over the realities.

A sve što nadživi smrt jeste jedna mala ništavna pobeda nad ve?noš?u ništavila - dokaz ljudske veli?ine i Jahvine milosti. Non omnis moriar.

The temporary suffering of existence is worth more than the final void of nothingness.

Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.

Sometimes thou seem'st not as thyself alone, But as the meaning of all things that are.

Ye who have passed Death's haggard hills; and ye Whom trees that knew your sires shall cease to know And still stand silent:--is it all a show,-- A wisp that laughs upon the wall?

Vivir sin enamorarse perdidamente es no haber vivido en absoluto.

Live today, tomorrow is uncertain!

A day here lasts a lifetime. You're born at dawn. You grow up at noon. You die at twilight. Tomorrow you change bodies.

But Drew liked the simplicity of her downsized life, this quieter existence. One needed, she saw now, only a few belongings, just as one needed only a few close friends, and a single passion - it need not be a person, necessarily.

Life itself is a gift. It's a compliment just being born: to feel, breathe, think, play, dance, sing, work, make love, for this particular lifetime. Today, let's give thanks for life. For life itself. For simply being born!

Louise often feels like part of her is "acting." At the same time , "there is another part 'inside' that is not connecting with the me that is talking to you," she says. When the depersonalization is at its most intense, she feels like she just doesn't exist. These experiences leave her confused about who she really is, and quite often, she feels like an "actress" or simply, "a fake.

But unlike people with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia, they are not going insane at all. They are, if anything, suddenly overly aware of reality and existence and of the ways in which their own experience is a distortion of a "normal" sense of a real self. Depersonalization,

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Many days and years and people had passed before she understood that the details themselves were the still and sacred things, that there was nothing else, that the curtain of daily life itself was holy, that behind it was only a void.

Eventually Honi asked God to kill him, because he realized he had become superfluous. Which in fact was the entire purpose of life, to live in such a way that one made oneself superfluous. And therein lay the root of the problem. There was no point in any of it, none at all, unless one had plans to leave.

Another remarkable thing about the dead is that they are all ages, preserved at every age you ever knew them, and at no age at all.

No one is anything more than a cloud that vanishes, and the best anyone could hope for was not to be the last.

Most people have never seen the inside of a womb—or, rather, everyone has seen it, but almost no one remembers it.

Denn, wie einer von Daniels Lehrern zu sagen pflegte: "Die ZEit an sich wird erst durch Akte wahrer Menschlichkeit erschaffen.