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Quotes about Existence

For the true God is not a soul, but the maker and author of the soul.
— St. Augustine
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
— St. Augustine
But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.
— St. Augustine
For my own part, indeed, as I dare not say that there ever was a time when the Lord God was not Lord, so I ought not to doubt that man had no existence before time, and was first created in time. But when I consider what God could be the Lord of, if there was not always some creature, I shrink from making any assertion, remembering my own insignificance.
— St. Augustine
Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....
— St. Augustine
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
— JRR Tolkien
We live in a real world. Come back to it.
— Natalie Portman
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
— Jack Kerouac
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
— Khalil Gibran
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
— St. Augustine