Quotes about Existence
With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.
— Aldous Huxley
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
— Graham Greene
When we are not sure, we are alive.
— Graham Greene
Satan, whom Paul labeled as "the god of this evil world," is so clever that he has fooled many people into thinking that he doesn't even exist—while in reality he controls their very lives.
— Greg Laurie
Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God."
— Greg Laurie
So when did these last two originate? They transcend "whenness," but if I must give a naive answer—when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a "when" when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.
— Gregory of Nyssa
Death is not an end but a doorway we walk through as automatically as we take our next breath.
— James Garlow
If we think in terms of our existence here, it means operating within the limits of life on earth. If we are thinking of time, it means disregarding the eternal and thinking only of the "now."
— James Montgomery Boice
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
— Stephen Hawking
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
— Wayne Dyer