Quotes about Existence

Oh, isn't it good to be alive--like this? Wouldn't it be dreadful if one had never lived?

I think there are two kinds of TRUE THINGS-- true things that ARE, and true things that ARE NOT, but MIGHT be.

Dear old world,' she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.

Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.' Isn't that worth learning, Aunt Jimsie?

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Biologically we're all the same. We all get sad, we all get happy, and we all die. Anyone who pretends that that's not the case is either a sociopath or utterly delusional.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

It gives me a deep comforting sense that Things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.

We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.