Quotes About Existence

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the Divinity that stirs within us.

A prolonged meditation on unseen realities is sufficiently difficult, and seems scarcely the occupation for which common human nature was intended.

The heart and passions of men are moved by things more within their attainment; the essential nature is stirred by the essential life; by the real actual existence of love, and hope, and character, and by the real literature which takes in its spirit, and which is in some sort its undefecated essence.

It might be advanced that there are original sources of expression in the essential grandeur and sublimity of Nature, of an analogous though fainter kind, to those familiar, inexplicable signs by which we trace in the very face and outward lineaments of man the existence and working of the mind within.

I'm a human before I'm even a rapper.

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.

If you really look hard at the evidence, the most rational conclusion is to believe that the demonic is real.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

What is real is beyond all reach.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

I want to read philosophers.

Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.

If we declare ourselves, as readers, to be on the side of life, the question has to be asked what sort of life we are on the side of.

The building blocks of life are readily available throughout the universe.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing 'real' was at risk, what would you do? You'd live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That's what the ghosts want us to do - all the exciting things they no longer can.

I know God is real.

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

I live a very real life.

Real life doesn't exist on a network television comedy. They just don't let you travel down any road that is presumably 'dark.'