I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have...

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist,...

I do not understand those who take little or no interest in the subject of religion. If religion embodies a truth, it is certainly the most important truth of human existence. If it is largely...

No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love.

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a...

How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[ ‘¦]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man...

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil.

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.

It takes time, or does time take it?

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real...

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the dark ocean on whose rolling waves we toss for a brief hour; all the loneliness of humanity amid hostile forces...

You can confine him to a miserable existence until he dies.

Why should anything exist at all, you might ask?Existence didn’t just spring out of nothing whatsoever. Even if there was a time of No-Thingness, then there must have been an inherent or precursory realm of...

I match my pajamas to my comforter so I can disappear into sleep. I’m camouflaged into noonexistence, where I don’t wake up until 12:00 PM.

If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinatecharacteristics. These attributes would impose limits and these limits would restrict the capacitiesof this supernatural being. In this case, a...

The Copenhagen criteria are rather clear. I don’t think the existence of secret prisons would be compatible with that.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background,” The Preacher said. “You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

We are all part of divinity. All mankind are divine.

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity’- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on democracy.

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You’ll find the treasure.

Un beau sourire sans aucune raison est le sourire de l’existence.

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through ‘human chaos’ or through ‘divine perfection’ when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the...

A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says “yes” to the whole existence.

It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some reason that makes no sense at all, they think it supports their case. Precisely the opposite is true. The anthropic...

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be.

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

Depressed people tended to end things on special occasions and party goers drank too much and then got behind the wheels of vehicles. But Valentine’s Day wasn’t too bad as far as suicides and car...

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.

Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.

Where was I last night? I don’t remember myself. I mean I remember me—I didn’t suffer from an out-of-body experience—but I myself don’t remember. I remember being there, but not where there was, or being...

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness.Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the...

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self is the product and a part of the total process of human existence. To transform oneself, self-knowledge is essential;...

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

God is not an alternative to science as an explanation, he is not to be understood merely as a God of the gaps, he is the ground of all explanation: it is his existence which...

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

Are decisions really products of analysis of a situation; or are simply out of preconceived notions? I believe, at some point of one’s existence, we all are troubled by relativism!