Quotes About Existence

Pero qué no ves que toda vida, toda creación en el campo que sea, todo acto de amor, no es más que una rebeldía frente a la extinción, no importa que sea falsa o verdadera, que dé resultados o no?

I'm not even in love with you. You don't even awaken in me one of those aberrant nostalgia that men my age feel with the proximity of a young life: you are an inferior being, Iris Mateluna, a piece of primary existence that surrounds a reproductive uterus so central to your person that all the rest of your being is a superfluous shell…

Yet God does exist in the idea of good, which watches over the birth of every being and leaves in the soul embodied in that being one pure tear. Good is God, and the tear the source of eternal feeling.

Te hice morir naciendo en mi corazón

He who does not really feel himself lost, is lost without remission; that is to say, he never finds himself, never comes up against his own reality.

I am myself and my circumstance. I live therefore I think.

Nada de lo que el hombre ha sido, es o será, lo ha sido, lo es ni lo será de una vez para siempre, sino que ha llegado a serlo un buen día y otro buen día dejará de serlo.

nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible

El hombre de cabeza clara mira de frente la vida, se hace cargo de que todo en ella es problemático y se siente perdido. Como vivir es sentirse perdido, el que lo acepta ya ha empezado a encontrarse.

Vivir es encontrarse náufrago entre las cosas

Soon after we begin living we become aware of the confines of our prison. It takes us thirty years at the most to recognize the limits within which our possibilities will move. We take stock of reality, which is like measuring the length of the chain which binds our feet. Then we say: "Is this life? Nothing more than this? A closed cycle which is repeated, always identical?" This is a dangerous hour for every man.

El mundo o nuestra vida posible es siempre más que nuestro destino o vida efectiva

Lo especifico, lo constitutivo de la opinión colectiva es que su existencia no depende de que sea o no aceptada por un individuo determinado.

Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo.

Wherever in this sublunary world philosophy is absent, there reigns somnambulism

I am me and my circumstance

Viver é se sentir fatalmente forçado a exercer a liberdade, a decidir o que vamos ser neste mundo. Nossa atividade de decisão não descansa um instante sequer. Mesmo quando, desesperados, nos abandonamos ao que vier, estamos decidindo não decidir.

No es el ayer, el pretérito, el haber tradicional, lo decisivo para que una nación exista. Este error nace, como ya he indicado, de buscar en la familia, en la comunidad nativa, previa, ancestral, en el pasado, en suma, el origen del Estado. Las naciones se forman y viven de tenr un programa para mañana.

insanlar, uygar dünyan?n sahnelediÄŸi trajedilerin gerçekliÄŸine inanmad?klar? için bu trajidelerin parças? olurlar.

Io sono io e la mia circostanza.

I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.