1,690 Quotes About Existence

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momentary effect in need of a cause.

With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all.

El infierno existe porque existe el miedo

After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living.

Un ser humano como yo no está adaptado al mundo en que vivimos. Si me puse a leer es porque me era difícil vivir, y me preguntaba si existiría una forma de vida más sosegada.

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things.

Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginative fantasy of all is to somehow think that I can do that in the first place.