Quotes About Existence

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

YaÅŸamak yeterince zor, ölmekse büyük iÅŸti.

all of us were here for a little while, and then we were somewhere else; we were not alive at all; we approached living, but we never achieved it. We are going to die. Everybody was going to die.

Living was hard enough. Dying was a supreme task.

Are the dead restored? The books say no, the night shouts yes

But he's dying". "Who isn't?

Il mondo non era che un mito, un aereo trasparente, su cui tutto era in transito; anche noi […], eravamo qui solo di passaggio per finire poi chissà dove. Non eravamo vivi, noi, ci limitavamo a sfiorare la vita senza mai afferrarla.

Ama o ölüyor." "Kim ölmüyor ki?

There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.

What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.

On some other planet in some other time zone, there are intelligent beings who feel very much alone. On some other planet one that we can't see, there must be one person who's a duplicate of me. John Rice

I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing.

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

A Christian theist, while conceding that the argument for God's existence is circular, nevertheless will claim that the argument is sound and persuasive. For he devoutly believes that his position is true, and he believes that it can be clearly recognized as such. He believes that God made men to think in terms of this circularity, rather than in terms of some competing circularity.

The reason for the resurrection is that the kingdom of Christ is not to be in heaven entirely. It is to be in this world. And the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is to rule in this world. Consequently, while we live in this world we will need a body like our Lord's—capable of existence here, and capable of existence over there.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists...

a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...

time begins when we awaken and ends when we fall asleep...

you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

we live in a different world, you and me - governed by different laws...

don't settle for pap - our thoughts wander through eternity - experience the wonder of being alive...

there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...