Quotes about Existence

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember.

the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously—

In esse I am nothing; in posse I am everything.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The End of every maker is himself.