Erwin Schrodinger Quotes

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.

I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'

Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, where is the director? I want to see him.