Quotes About Existence

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

I'm not a real Halloween kind of guy, because Halloween is every day.

I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

I walked away in the manner that we always do from horror: believing that refusal to accept reality might just negate it, knowing that it walks one constant, smirking step behind us. I walked until the vast, black truth of what had happened overwhelmed me, becoming part of my existence, pivotal-- - Ian Cowley, Crossed: Badlands #1

I suppose you could call me...Soot, said the thing. Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name. Eaten it? asked Suzy. Why eat soot? Boredom, said Soot.

You may call me Mogget. As to what I am, I was once many things, but now I am only several.

Don't look , part of his mind said. If you don't see trouble, it doesn't exist. But it does , thought Arthur, fighting down the fear. Keep breathing slowly. You have to confront your fears. Deal with them .

It is the nature of Death to take, but the nature of Life to give.

You mortals arose from the possibility she made and, though she always liked to think so, are consequently not of her direct design.

No where, said Merlin quietly, Somewhere. An in-between place.

Thank you, dear Father, for the grace to see you in the midst of our busy daily existence. — Mona Rottinghaus —

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?)

He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed—nothing, not one thing on God's earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle—they all wanted to live.

moose was a moose. There

So. So. So here I am." And there it is, he thought. For

That simple. You lived or you died. And in between the two, if you kept your mind open and aware and listened and smelled and watched... In between you learned. from Northwind

As Einstein noted, past, present, and future all occur simultaneously.

there isn't really any such thing as a subject and an object, there is only oneness.

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On that night I was left with only the truth that nothing of our personality survives after death, that in the end all that was Misha Vainberg would evaporate along with the styles and delusions of his epoch, leaving behind not one flutter of his sad heavy brilliance, not one damp spot around which his successors could congregate to appreciate his life and times.

Dead is dead, we know where to file another person's extinction, but the artist purposely zoomed in on the living, or, to be more accurate, the forced-to-be-living and the soon-to-be-dead. Grainy

IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS CHECKPOINT ('THE OBJECT'). BY READING THIS SIGN YOU HAVE DENIED EXISTENCE OF THE OBJECT AND IMPLIED CONSENT.

I think of my mother and father. Of their constant anxiety. But their anxiety means they still want to live.

any life ending in death is essentially pointless.