Quotes about Existence

Faith is not a product of reflection, nor is it even an attempt to penetrate the depths of my own being.

On the whole, infinity is a fairly palpable aspect of this business of publishing, if only because it extends a dead author's existence beyond the limits he envisioned, or provides a living author with a future he cannot measure. In other words, this business deals with the future which we all prefer to regard as unending.

But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.

I think the dual existence thing is a regular pastime for all human beings, and for that matter anything in this universe.

The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

As long as one suffers one lives.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

Don't you believe it. I'll tell you what life is. It's gaol, it's not knowing where to get some money. Worms and cataract, cancer. You hear 'em shrieking from the upper windows- children being born. It's dying slowly.

There's only things, Blackie.

to each man a city consists of no more than a few streets, a few houses, a few people. Remove those few and a city exists no longer except as a pain in the memory...

I laugh at anyone who spends so much time writing about what doesn't exist - mental concepts.