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Quotes About Existence

I can live without God. I can even come to live with the idea there is no life after. But I do not think I could go on if I did not believe in the possibility of goodness.
~ Anne Rice
What am I? Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?
~ Anne Rice
Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value off every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually . . . it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life . . . every second of it . . . is all we have.
~ Anne Rice
Then no sin matters,' he said. 'No sin achieves evil.' 'That's not true. Because if God doesn't exist we are the creatures of highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually...it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life...every second of it...is all we have.
~ Anne Rice
Enjoy your life, fill your belly with wine and food, and accept death. The Gods kept immortality for themselves, death is the lot of man.
~ Anne Rice
I could drive myself mad contemplating a great nothingness filled with a billion pinpoints of light and millions of drifting planets generating their myriad biological I=kingdom of insect, animal, sentient witness.
~ Anne Rice
Songs are everywhere you look, in the rain, in the wind, in the moan of the suffering, songs.
~ Anne Rice
the Jews believe each life is a universe, and if you take a life, well, then you are destroying a universe.
~ Anne Rice
God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant.
~ Anne Rice
There are many worlds in the 'Realm of Worlds' where the ascendant beings are not male or female.
~ Anne Rice
Almost none of these very strong and patient souls sought the flesh again. But some of them had in the past. They had gone down and been reborn and discovered in the final analysis that they could not remember from one fleshly life to another, so there was no real reason to keep being born! Better to linger here, in the eternity that was known to them, and to watch the Beauty of Creation, and it did seem very beautiful to them, as it had seemed to us.
~ Anne Rice
You will not feel anything. When you detonate the explosion, you will cease to be. That's all. There is no life beyond biological life. There is no life beyond visible life.
~ Anne Rice
We alone understand the passage of time and the value of every minute of human life. And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would have died tomorrow or the day after or eventually … it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, this life … every second of it … is all we have.
~ Anne Rice
There is no heaven. There is no hell. There is no above or below. If there is a realm beyond this one, it is no more beautiful, no more significant, no more full of truth, than ours here on earth.
~ Anne Rice
Because if God does not exist, this life Ã¢â'¬Â¦ every second of it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is all we have.
~ Anne Rice
Evil is a point of view. God kills, indiscriminately, and so shall we. He takes the richest and the poorest, as so shall we, for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves
~ Anne Rice
And we do breathe. We breathe and we taste and we smell and we feel and we thirst.
~ Anne Rice
The Maker offers us creation itself as proof of his greatness.
~ Anne Rice
And I? What am I? Do I live? Or am I always walking in death? Forever in love with time?
~ Anne Rice
the hair. Well, there is no God. You might as well be God.
~ Anne Rice
I love; therefore I am.
~ Anne Rice
It is the very nature of this world that all things are devoured and time is a mouth as bloody as any other.
~ Anne Rice
Even the avowed atheist probably thinks that in death he'll get some answer. I mean God will be there, or there won't be anything at all.
~ Anne Rice
Not a day goes by, when I don't ask a cosmic question. Does life have meaning? Or is this all smoke and mirrors? Are we all doomed?
~ Anne Rice