Quotes About Existence

Ella llora, insensata, porque ella ha vivido! ¡Y porque vive! Pero, lo que ella deplora Sobre todo, lo que la hace temblar hasta las rodillas, Es que mañana, ¡ah! ¡tendrá que vivir todavía! ¡Mañana, pasado mañana y siempre! — ¡Como nosotros!

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.

Feelings are like breathing, they come in and go out.

Whatever lay ahead, he was glad to be alive.

you wondered why in the hell the world had been created in the first place. Good things were in short supply, and so much of the rest was downright rancid.

Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world--

I think tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.

Nothing was eternal, except maybe for the mind of God, and even at thirteen I had my doubts about that.

Birth is nothing but death begun

The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive, after all.

tempus est umbra in mente

For months - sometimes even years, as I tried to explain to you - time hardly seems to exist. Then everything comes in a gasp.

We came from a mystery and it's to a mystery we go.

La ficción es la verdad que se encuentra dentro de la mentira y la verdad de esta ficción es muy sencilla: La magia existe.

Time is invisible. Unlike weight. Ah, but maybe that wasn't true. You could feel weight, yes--when you were carrying too much, it made you ploddy--but wasn't it, like time, basically just a human construct? Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren't they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality?

For some, including Nicholas II, the mere existence of a prime minister was an affront to autocracy.63

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.

Life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life,' he said. 'So let's get wasted all of the time, and have the time of our life.

You wonder about that sometimes, you wonder what happens when you die in your sleep. Do you carry on dreaming, does the moment of death expand to fill the void so that the dream goes on forever, or does it just fade to black? And if it goes on forever, does it matter whether the dream was a pleasant one or a nightmare? Would one be heaven and the other hell?

Death and taxes are the only two certainties in life, as Mark Twain once said. Or was it Benjamin Franklin?

As we begin to see where we have been absent from life, increasing possibilities audition for our approval.

the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances such as terminal illness.

No somos seres humanos que tienen una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales que tienen una experiencia humana».

three central values in life—the experiential, or that which happens to us; the creative, or that which we bring into existence; and the attitudinal, or our response in difficult circumstances