Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?

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.

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.

Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days.

Love is a door leading to a better existence. But knock before entering, because behind that door I think grandpa's taking a shit.


Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

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.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.