Quotes about Existence
You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion." She motioned to our virtual surroundings.
- Ernest Cline
As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.
- Ernest Cline
The mind is the only thing about human beings that's worth anything. Why does it have to be tied to a bag of skin, blood, hair, meat, bones and tubes? No wonder people can't get anything done, stuck for life with a parasite that has to be stuffed with food and protected from weather and germs all the time. And the fool thing wears out anyway—no matter how much you stuff and protect it! —Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Ernest Cline
Besides, now I was thinking there just might be a God after all—that would explain who was currently fucking with my whole notion of reality.
- Ernest Cline
I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.
- Ernest Cline
Sempre que via o sol, eu me lembrava de que estava olhando para uma estrela. Uma entre mais de cem bilhões de estrelas em nossa galáxia. Uma galáxia que era apenas uma entre bilhões de outras galáxias no Universo. Isso me ajudava a manter a cabeça no lugar.
- Ernest Cline
Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
- Ernest Cline
What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore
- Ernest Cline
La realidad no me entusiasma, pero sigue siendo el único lugar donde se come decentemente.
- Ernest Cline
Self is the soul minus God.
- Eugene Peterson
There is a large, leisurely center to existence where God must be deeply pondered, lovingly believed.
- Eugene Peterson
The bawling of babies, always in a way Inappropriate - why should the love and innocent Greet existence with wails? - is proof that not all Is well. Dreams and deliveries never quite mesh.
- Eugene Peterson