Quotes About Existence

Time is merely the spread-out and piecemeal view that an individual being has of the Ideas.

O horizonte intelectual do homem normal pode até ultrapassar o do animal - cuja existência, sem nenhuma consciência do futuro e do passado, é inteiramente presente -, mas não está tão distante deste quanto se supõe.

every human individual be aware of the inescapable and arbitrary suffering which is set off by the very existence of the will and refrain from using the imaginative power of our mind to envision it otherwise.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man who is privileged in this respect leads two lives, a personal and an intellectual life; and the latter gradually comes to be looked upon as the true one, and the former as merely a means to it.

Todas las ideas hacen un esfuerzo violento para conseguir manifestarse en el mundo de los fenómenos.

Viceversa ogni causalità, perciò ogni materia, e quindi l'intera realtà esiste soltanto per l'intelletto, mediante l'intelletto, nell'intelletto. La prima, più semplice, sempre presente manifestazione dell'intelletto è l'intuizione del mondo reale: questa non è altro se non conoscenza della causa dall'effetto: perciò ogni intuizione è intellettuale

Sólo la especie tiene una vida sin fin, y ella sola es capaz de satisfacciones y de dolores infinitos.

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.

Bütün bunlar elbette, hayat?n bir rüya, ölümün de bu rüyadan uyan?? olarak nitelendirilebileceÄŸi anlam?na gelir. Ancak unutulmamal?d?r ki kiÅŸilik ve birey, bu rüya haline aittir, uyanm?? bilince deÄŸil.

Life and dreams are leaves of the same book.

We must not even evade it, as the Indians do, by myths and meaningless words, such as reabsorption in Brahman, or the Nirvana of the Buddhists. On the contrary, we freely acknowledge that what remains after the complete abolition of the will is, for all who are still full of the will, assuredly nothing. But also conversely, to those in whom the will has turned and denied itself, this very real world with all its suns and galaxies, is—nothing

The world is just a hell and in it human beings are the tortured souls on the one hand, and the devils on the other

Si un Dios ha hecho ese mundo, yo no quisiera ser ese Dios. La miseria del mundo me desgarraría el corazón.

The life of the individual is only borrowed from that of the species.

Querer es esencialmente sufrir, y como vivir es querer, toda vida es por esencia dolor.

The world is idea.

It may not be dying we fear so much, but the diminished self.

Reflection on memory makes the self an object of wonder—an astonishment previously reserved for the contemplation of the world.

What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

If you're happy in a dream…does that count? The happiness–does it count?