Quotes About Existence

That's what I think more and more. There's nothing. No God, no Devil, nothing. No damnation, no redemption. There's just us and what we do. The things we achieve or the mess we make.

WHAT IS REALITY? It's both the simplest question to answer—and the hardest. Over the ages, it has baffled both philosophers and physicists. In The Republic, Plato described the true world as nothing more than a flickering shadow on a cave wall. Oddly enough, millennia later, scientists have come full circle to a similar conclusion.

For in this world, one life was enough for any man.

We are star-stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.

Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!

Time doesn't fly. It just never stops. And the next thing you know, it's now." --from "Diary of a Company Man

Bright Segment" -that's it. If I'm our lives we have one or two of those, one or two bright segments, Doc thought, we're fortunate. Most don't. And the rest wasn't silence, like that opera, I Pagliacci, said. The rest was just noise.

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more

How little roomDo we take up in death that, living, knowNo bounds!

Death was easy. A piece of pie. That is the true horror.

You are a ghost, a figure that stands between light and dark, trapped amid the grey. And I have need of such a man." - Malcador the Sigillite

This proposal would mean our Universe is entirely deterministic, our lives the result of a gigantic computer program that we live within and form part of.

Dust is watching life's talk show.

I find no hint throughout the UniverseOf good or ill, of blessing or of curse;I find alone Necessity Supreme.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

We being round thee, forget to die.

And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?' 'To live,' said Camilla. 'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm.

We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?" "To live," said Camilla. "To live forever''.