Quotes About Existence

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Sein heisst in der Klemme sein.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Action: Tell your husband how much you love him.   Today's Wisdom: Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. —CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

I am really here. Yet I know I am not. I am inside something that must be buried in my head. I am layers deep in my own brain.

I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.

There is nothing in the universe but this. I smile. I do not talk to people. I just breathe and stare and exist.

I was just a tiny part of a huge universe, and nothing really mattered. Every single thing was temporary, and one day all of us would be gone without trace. It was an intensely soothing thought.

I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

There is not room for Death.

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The mere sense of living is joy enough.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

A Word is Dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

Love—is anterior to Life—Posterior—to Death—Initial of Creation, andThe Exponent of Earth.