Quotes About Existence

Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.

Samuel Beckett já disse: Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio. Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso.

If such a thing had happened once, it must surely have happened many times in this galaxy of a hundred billion suns.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.

Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone

There's an ancient philosophical joke that's much subtler than it seems. Question: Why is the Universe here? Answer: Where else would it be?

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

They would probably never even know that the human race existed. Such monumental indifference was worse than any deliberate insult. When

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.

They had forgotten much, but they did not know it. They were as perfectly fitted to their environment as it was to them—for both had been designed together. What was beyond the walls of the city was no concern of theirs; it was something that had been shut out of their minds. Diaspar was all that existed, all that they needed, all that they could imagine. It mattered nothing to them that Man had once possessed the stars.

Atheism is unprovable, so uninteresting. However unlikely it is, we can never be certain that God once existed—and has now shot off to infinity, where no one can ever find him… Like Gautama Buddha, I take no position on this subject.

There could be no ghosts upon a world that had never known life.

Nothing in this scene will be changed by my death, Nicole thought. There will just be one less pair of eyes to observe its splendor. And one less collection of chemicals risen to consciousness to wonder what it all means.

Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.

all that he had ever been, at every moment of his life, was being transferred to safer keeping. Even as one David Bowman ceased to exist, another became immortal.

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics and which ones by religion.

Is there intelligent life on Earth? Yours

The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics

It goes on forever and forever, and perhaps Something made it. But how you can believe that Something has a special interest in us and our miserable little world—that just beats me.

Whatever their origin, the human race was fortunate to have seen such a wonder; it could exist for only a brief moment of time in the history of the Solar System.