Scarlett Thomas Quotes

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Our business is with life, not death.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

Without transcendence, life has no beauty.

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

I have a rendezvous with life.

Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?