Quotes about Existence

It was a big base of my performance art ... the idea of here and now ... not something that's happening in the past or the future. It's always happening. It's always now.... Only what matters is the present.

G. K. Chesterton said that his goal in life was to take nothing for granted—not a sunrise, not a smile, not a flower, nothing. That is a truly wonderful approach to life. Don't take anything for granted. Truly appreciate every minute that you have to live. My near-death experience has helped me be better at that. If I hadn't almost died, I wouldn't have figured out how to live.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.6

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.