existence Quotes

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

While it may be disappointing, I have to confess to people who ask for my insights on the meaning of it all that astronomy doesn't provide any clearly useful data on matters of sin and souls.

Being is the great explainer.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.