Existence Quotes - Page 3

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones

Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.

That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that...

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.
Nor can I say that I know him not....
Nor do I know that I know him not.

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.

Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things-clip coupons and double lock the front door-and then one day just cease to exist?

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.

Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose-a god who simply is.