You may say, ‚Well, dragons don’t exist.‘ It’s, like, yes they do – the category ‚predator‘ and the category ‚dragon‘ are the same category. It absolutely exists. It’s a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

If I shall exist eternally, how shall I exist tomorrow?

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

The universe is not indifferent to our existence – it depends on it.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Being is the great explainer.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from… Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Contention existed before the earth was formed.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.