Quotes About Existence

Aunque hará bien en no olvidar que una persona sabia es aquella que monotoniza la existencia pues, entonces, cada pequeño incidente, si sabe leerlo literariamente, tiene para ella carácter de maravilla.

Dijo que el mundo fue perfecto y amable, y que el mundo perfecto y amable seguía existiendo, pero enterrado como un montón de rosas bajo muchas paladas de tierra.

La oscuridad se convirtió en un espacio infinito y vacío, en cuyo centro se hallaba la madre del género humano.

Seis o siete escenas para cada biografía, pues la vida ?lo siento? no da para mucho más.

You don't need to look for anything. Believe me, your life — the one and only great adventure — is enough." "What a cliché!" I replied.

Estamos solos, cada uno consigo mismo y con su muerte propia y su vida solitaria y desastrosa, estamos muy solos todos. Pero te diré algo que quizás te consuele. La soledad es el afrodisíaco del espíritu, como la conversación lo es de la inteligencia.

Lo más terrible de todo es saber en que consiste esta miserable vida y, pese a todo, y con la mayor alevosía, tener hijos. Se necesita mucho cinismo, valor y crueldad para una cosa de ese estilo.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

No tenemos por qué temer a la muerte, pues, de hecho, no nos encontramos con ella nunca con ella. Cuando todavía estamos aquí, ella aún no está. Y cuando ella está, nosotros ya no estamos.

Quando noi viviamo la morte non c'è, quando c'è lei non ci siamo noi.

Si deve poi ricordare che il futuro non è del tutto nostro, né del tutto non nostro

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can but will not, then they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, why does it exist?

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

I was not; I have been; I am not; I do not mind.

So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

What was most important in Epicurus' philosophy of nature was the overall conviction that our life on this earth comes with no strings attached; that there is no Maker whose puppets we are; that there is no script for us to follow and be constrained by; that it is up to us to discover the real constraints which our own nature imposes on us.

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us.

when you die, your mind will be gone even faster than your body.