Quotes about Existence

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Some of us, we're hardly ever here The rest of us, we're born to disappear How do I stop myself from Being just a number? How will I hold my head To keep from going under?

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Life is a constant process of dying.

During eternity past, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished.

This earth of ours is old, how old we do not know, possibly millions of years. But "the word" was before all things. He was not only from the beginning, but He was "in the beginning.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.