1,690 Quotes About Existence

I guess a state of dreamless sleep is what the universe must be experiencing all the time. It exists, but it does not know.

I simply cannot wrap my mammalian brain around the notion that there can be a reality where there is no space and time.

Walk barefoot on your convictions and beliefs…Ask unasked questions about the edge of your existence.

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

You may be just a baby to the world, but for me you are my love, my life, and my whole world and existence.

There, sitting cross-legged on the floor, he stared absently at his legs. They began to look strange. They no longer seemed to grow from his trunk at all, but rather, completely unconnected, they sprawled rudely before him. When he got this far, he realized something he had never noticed before—that his legs were unbearably hideous. With hair growing unevenly and blue streaks running rampant, they were terribly strange creatures.

A truly new thought or decision is a moment of creation that science cannot explain because it requires either randomness or spontaneity.

The skylark knows that the Moon is not just a satellite; the drop of Arcturus knows which shell has the capacity to turn it to a pearl; river knows the path to reach the ocean and the morning star knows in which direction it has to glow. In a similar encounter, I know YOU as you have been a part of me since the process of evolution, a part without which 'existence' would not have existed.

All scientific and philosophical ideas about the nature of our existence claim that our experience of life is different to the underlying reality. We are all living in an illusion to some degree. The choice for you is to determine how deep the illusion might go.