Quotes about Existence

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.

When you think of it, really there are four fundamental questions of life. You've asked them, I've asked them, every thinking person asks them. They boil down to this; origin, meaning, morality and destiny. 'How did I come into being? What brings life meaning? How do I know right from wrong? Where am I headed after I die?'

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.

That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?

A being than which nothing greater can be conceived to exist.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

In a word, human kingdoms are established by divine providence. And if any one attributes their existence to fate, because he calls the will or the power of God itself by the name of fate, let him keep his opinion, but correct his language.