Quotes About Existence

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

Scientific laws are not the property of a man. They exist outside of us.

God made us the butt of the joke universe.

You can get to a point of needing to make the loudest possible noise just to see if you are still alive.

being dead seemed a lot like not being born yet, and I hadn't especially minded that.

No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.

She needs some proof that she isn't the last woman left on earth, the surviving queen of nothing.

In cio', ci allineiamo, non si sa quanto consapevoli, a un'idea di fondo, squisitamente barbara, che in teoria non condividiamo, ma in realta' pratichiamo senza nessuna difficolta': il senso delle cose non alberga in un loro tratto originario e autentico, ma nella traccia che da esse sprigiona quando entrano in connessione con altri pezzi di mondo.

Per quanto uno si sforzi di vivere una sola vita, gli altri ce ne vedranno dentro altre mille, e questa è la ragione per cui non si riesce ad evitare di farsi del male. Da Senza Sangue

mono no aware, the sadness of being human

some traveler from the undiscovered country. I know as well as I know anything the dead are simply dead.

God. That bastard, he doesn't exist. —Samuel Beckett

when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Barry Eisler

I had such a strong awareness that one day, I was going to be gone, but the trees would still be here, the moon would still be above them, shining down, and it made me cry, but a good kind of crying, because I knew it had to be that way. I had to accept it because that's the way things are. Things end. That's mono no aware.

What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.

It came to him, the very picture: he was unshucked oyster, hurtling on the winds, all air, gonad and gut. Chances seemed in a loud hurry around him, but he could do nothing--nothing-- about them. Mestre yearned to be driven by some grand circumstance. Everything in his existence was too slack.

Immortality is only for the gods," he whispered. "I wonder how they can stand it.

I feel that my fingers have brushed one of life's deep, coursing threads…Speak, even notice it, and it would disappear.

the world is ever so slightly but uncorrectably out of focus, that there are no absolutely precise answers. Whatever

How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but in oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

The truth, one tends to think, is that all of us, drunk or sober, sedated or not, aggrieved or manic, live consciously or unconsciously within this maelstrom, which no one really wants to risk shutting down.

In other words, that humans were not set apart by having "a soul.