Why We Are Here famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Why we are here is an impenetrable question.
-- Edward Albee

#Why We Are Here
We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. [And] it's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.
-- Joel Kinnaman

#Mind #Roles #Why We Are Here
Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The most important one is always the one you are with. And the most important thing is to do good for the one who is standing at your side. This is why we are here.
-- Jon J Muth

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I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton

#Hurt #Coffins #Why We Are Here
Eloquent and moving... an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of love - beyond faith and dogma. It reminds us of why we are here: to love and live fully, to be curious about all things, and to live a compassionate - and passionate - authentic life.
-- Mira Bartok

#Moving #Passionate #Why We Are Here
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.
-- Paul D. MacLean

#Brain #Curiosity #Why We Are Here
It is time for us to take off our masks, to step out from behind our personas - whatever they might be: educators, activists, biologists, geologists, writers, farmers, ranchers, and bureaucrats - and admit we are lovers, engaged in an erotics of place. Loving the land. Honoring its mysteries. Acknowledging, embracing the spirit of place - there is nothing more legitimate and there is nothing more true. That is why we are here. That is why we do what we do. There is nothing intellectual about it. We love the land. It is a primal affair.
-- Terry Tempest Williams

#Land #Intellectual #Why We Are Here
The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.
-- Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

#Church #Fields #Why We Are Here
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
-- John Petrucci

#Feelings #Trying #Why We Are Here

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.
If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?
Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!
I want Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D played at my funeral. If it isn't I shall jolly well want to know why.
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Order is the disposition of things in which each gives to the other its room, its own proper place. That's the external aspect. The other is that order that springs from love: there's no other way of establishing order except through love.
The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.
Different people call me different things. In America, people really struggle with my name, so I don't have a nickname as such. I've had Sharlito, Sheldon, Charldo, really interesting variations on the name.
We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.
When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.