Quotes About Existence

Haec ego non multis, sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.

Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Death means nothing to us

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

For if death is we are not,if we are death is not

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

The strong stand taken by the Epicureans against all these tendencies was taken not in the name of science and human knowledge alone but in the name of human happiness, on the reasonable assumption that if men know the true nature of reality they are more likely to be happy than if they do not. Hence the happy and the good life presupposes knowing and knowing how to know.

When we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist

nada se cria a partir daquilo que não existe, porque se assim fosse, tudo se criaria a partir de tudo, sem necessidade de sementes.

se aquilo que desaparece fosse destruído naquilo que não existe, todas as coisas teriam perecido, já que aquilo em que foram dissolvidas não existiria mais.

A morte não é nada para nós, porque o corpo, quando está dissolvido nos seus elementos, não tem sentimento, e o que não tem sentimento não é nada para nós.

Reality is all things simultaneously, or, in the Greek phrase, it is a process of "becoming" in which even apparently clearcut opposites lose identity and merge into each other.

the universe as a whole is eternal, although individual worlds within the system are born and die; and if the universe is eternal it must be self-sustaining and require no divine assistance for its maintenance.

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo

La morte, il più terribile dei mali, non è niente. Quando ci siamo noi la morte non c'è, e quando c'è lei noi non siamo più.

Offensichtlich existiert jetzt Etwas, und Etwas entstand nie aus Nichts.

In the beginning (????) was the Word" (Jn 1:1) is not primarily a temporal statement. The

Remember, as the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined. Teach our children kindness, and in generations to come, cruelty might be erased from our existence.

Life in the Impasse des Huit Anges would, Latimer thought, be rather like a rehearsal for Eternity.