Origin of Existence Quotes

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

Nothing comes from nothing.

If ever there were a time there was nothing, there would be nothing now.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.

If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?

Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.

I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always.

Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Things are all made from nothing; hence their true source is nothing.

The way is the beginning of all beings and the measure of right and wrong.

I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

As the web issues out of the spider, As plants sprout from the earth, As hair grows from the body, even so, The sages say, this universe springs from, The deathless Self (the Supreme Soul), the source of life.

A world of made is not a world of born

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing can be born of nothing; nothing can be resolved into nothing.

Nothing comes out of nothing.

Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance.