Quotes About Existence

Muchos nacen; pocos viven. Los hombres sin personalidad son innumerables y vegetan moldeados por el medio, como cera fundida en el cuño social.

Indiferentes" ha llamado Ribot a los que viven sin que se advierta su existencia. La sociedad piensa y quiere por ellos. No tienen voz, sino eco. No hay líneas definidas ni en su propia sombra, que es, apenas, una penumbra.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

What a time to be alive, huh? On one hand, we're nothing. We're dirt. On the other hand, we're the reason the universe was made.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank.

I knew damn well that nobody's ever really happy, or happy on time, since happiness belongs to the past.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.

Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile... The question is... can man develop to the full as a functionary and a "worker" and nothing else; can a full human existence be contained within an exclusively workaday existence? Stated differently and translated back into our terms: is there such a thing as a liberal art?

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.

True benevolence, or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathises with the distress of every creature capable of sensation

Truth must be found in reality, not systems.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

love is an attitude toward reality – usually of someone finite toward something infinite.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.