Quotes About Existence

Under a final section he called "Spiritual Gifts/Powers," Chad bizarrely wrote that wizards, sorcerers, and witches actually existed, as did the spells and curses in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, which required "great focused will to use.

We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.

We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn't bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

Reality' is the idea that there is a real world that exists whether or not anyone is looking at it, or measuring it.

Nuestro medio ambiente terrestre es, en gran parte, producto del Universo en el que vivimos.

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

The roles assigned to humans bind them together in their common plight and bind them to the gods in servitude. Egyptian sources offer no explanation for the creation of humans. Sumerian and Akkadian sources consistently portray people as having been created to do the work of the gods—work that is essential for the continuing existence of the gods, and work that they have tired of doing for themselves.

Nothing was made before me but eternal things, And I endure eternally. The voice belonged to X. Jason was home, indeed.

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning. Surely, while we live we are not lost. Oh Janos, Janos my brother! Surely we are not lost--while we live.

The idea that humiliation is some capital crime of the spirit is a fiction. The sentences we hand down for losing control and succumbing to physical limits in life are arbitrary acts of self-loathing. All human beings have bodies that define their existence and which can veto the best-laid plans of the mind and soul.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

The human soul knows that growth is the only reason for its existence. [Hopkins quoting S. Bellow]

suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.

Existence nullified by men; reaffirmed by nature.

We are all dying of life.

Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte»

It is, he thought, the greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable, that we don't know our allotted span of days.

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.