Quotes About Existence

It was about being true to the very stuff of life, it was about trying to capture, though you never could, the very feel of being alive. It was about finding a language. And it was about being true to the fact, the one thing only followed from the other, that many things in life—oh so many more than we think—can never be explained at all.

Could life be so cruel yet so bounteous at the same time?

Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.

Kaip gali b?ti kažkuo, pirma nepabuv?s niekuo?

Some things, some places perhaps take up their truer existence in the mind.

And though, indeed, it only happened once, it's gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there's a memory for them to happen in …

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

per ogni protagonista comparso per una volta sul cosiddetto palcoscenico della storia, sono stati migliaia, milioni coloro che non sono mai entrati nel teatro, che non hanno mai saputo che lo spettacolo si stava svolgendo, che hanno continuato l'ingrato lavoro di far fronte alla realtà.

Così come noi siamo fatti per un decimo di tessuti viventi e per nove decimi di acqua, così la vita è per un decimo Qui e Ora, e per nove decimi è una lezione di storia. Per la maggior parte del tempo, il Qui e Ora non è nè qui nè ora.

La gente non legge forse i libri per fuggire da se stessa, e per tenere lontani i guai che ne scandiscono l'esistenza?

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA

Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?' Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real. 'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead. 'You're more real than I am.

If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real?

But where in all of this description is the essential chair? Have we yet come even close to a full description of it? Did we even mention that several hundred years ago, it wasn't a chair but a tree? Where is it now? Here? Or in memory. We cannot even fully describe a chair and yet we say I am. I am.... Understand. There is no I am. Nothing is . Try to describe all that you are. Simultaneously discern the logical flaw in what I've just said. Now! Feel the white flame.

Todo cuanto te ha ocurrido es real, incluso tus sueños. Ellos sobre todo

Jane: Cliff...Oh! The metal's warm, like skin. Look at me, Cliff. Listen. Love means nothing at all. Life means nothing at all. Cliff: What?

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.

Purpose. Your life's mission. Your reason for existing. This law asks us to consider our great aim — the work we have been brought

Stars I understand. They shed light and give life. It is the emptiness between that haunts me.

All that I was, but for reflections in a cracked mirror, has been lost for a long, long time.

Humans believe in nothingness, in zeros. It is one of their distinguishing traits. They keep inventing nothing. Forerunners know otherwise.