Quotes about Existence

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

in a flash of insight he became aware of the innumerable necessary evils of which life for her was made up.

My dear, try to believe we exist when you aren't there. We're independent of you. None of us is like you fancy we are. Perhaps it wouldn't matter much if your thoughts were not so dark, always so dark.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.

What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These

The flesh is not a nature that is essential to someone's identity. It is rather a deceptive way of seeing and experiencing oneself and one's world and thus a deceptive way of living in the world.

The very fact that what God creates is less than Himself introduces limitations and imperfections into the picture.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

Well, I think life is precious because you can't watch it again. I mean you can believe in an after life if that makes you feel better but once you realize you're not going to be around forever, I think that's what makes life so magical.

When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.