Existential Link Quotes

I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

We are, because God is.

The farther we peer into space, the more we realize that the nature of the universe cannot be understood fully by inspecting spiral galaxies or watching distant supernovas. It lies deeper. It involves our very selves.

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of intestines loaded with stars?

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

To a mother, a child is everything; but to a child, a parent is only a link in the chain of her existence.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

I don't exist without writing.

I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.