Quotes About Existence

A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands.

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continously happy in it.

Oh yes I am thinking the human soul is a very slight thing, and not much evolution has gone into it I fear. It is a vague slight notion with not even a proper niche in the body. And yet is the only thing we have that God will measure.

We knew we was just fragments of legend and had never really existed in that town. There is no better feeling.

How difficult it is to live.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.

Es war, wie Alina mir einmal erklärt hatte: Es sind nicht die Augen, mit denen wir die Welt erkennen. Es sind unsere Gefühle, die uns sehen lassen. Und meine Gefühle spürten in diesem Moment die Anwesenheit des Todes.

Welchen Sinn hatte es überhaupt, durch das Leben zu hetzen, wenn am Ende niemand auf einen wartete?

Waren sie nicht alle Reisende, die wussten, dass die eigene Existenz im Angesicht des Universums so flüchtig war wie ein Boxenstopp an der Autobahn?

Ono Å¡to ne znamo, to nas i ne brine. A ono Å¡to ne vidimo to i ne postoji?

Menschen, die sich erinnern, leben nicht in der Vergangenheit.

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness; you become everything.

Moral Psychology is a manifestation in the philosophical discipline of ethical nihilism.

Embracing and being thankful for the family and friends I do have instead of yearning for the family I cannot know or have has helped erase the hollowness I felt when I first found out. When I consider my good health, sense of humor, adventurous side, creative gifts and even my quirky phobias, I am grateful that the two people responsible for creating me existed." (Maddie Saunders, the heroine)

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

So many other planets & stars -- could all those stars set over barren planets, beauty wasted? Or, are sunsets witnessed throughout the universe?

Mi sebi rado postavljamo metafizi?ka pitanja o svijetu, životu i ?ovjeku. A trebali bismo iznova i stalno pitati: zašto s tolikim naporom i mukom živimo, kad znamo da ?emo ovdje biti samo jednom i kad imamo tako kratko i neponovljivo vrijeme u ovom neopisivo lijepom svijetu?

Here's what I think: there are neither major nor minor tragedies. Tragedies exist. Some can be described. There are others for which every heart is too small. Those kind cannot fit in the heart.

That's what time was like, along with the things occupying it, that it made the feelings connected to any memory seem worthless.

Time is something of an enemy" she opined, "for us mortals. And yet I love it" - she fluttered her fingers in the air - "I love this moment, and it's a child of time.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.