Existential Impact Quotes

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

Would I consider myself alt-right, if you want to ask that question? No, I don't. Not even a little bit. I think I am a pretty devout Christian, and I treat my walk with Christ very seriously - very seriously - in a way that I'm constantly looking at the things I do and how that affects me existentially.

Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. We are born, we eat, and learn, and die. We leave a tracery of messages in the lives of others, a little shifting of the soil, a stone moved from here to there, a word uttered, a song, a poem left behind. I was here, each of these declare. I was here.

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

My existence wouldn't be the same if there weren't women.

Being human means asking the questions of one's own being and living under the impact of the answers given to this question. And, conversely, being human means receiving answers to the questions of one's own being and asking questions under the impact of the answers.

To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.

A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way other people negotiate with the environment and with themselves.

A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.