Existence Quotes - Page 4

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.

Who will read these poems when the people are gone?

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

The Structure is bigger than the concept.

Without hope we fail to exist.

The stars up there at night are closer than you think.

Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode-a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?