Quotes About Existence

Ne postoji ama baš ništa ?emu su potrebni ljudi, osim možda samim ljudima.

Yo no pedí nacer. Nadie lo hizo. El tamaño y la complejidad del universo me hacen sentir muy pequeño y libre de responsabilidades. Me llevan a pensar que lo único que tiene sentido es intentar pasárselo bien.

Alrededor del diez por ciento de todos los seres humanos que han vivido alguna vez en la Tierra está ahora vivo.

Spet to z vesoljem. Vse misli prejšne no?i me nekako niso naredile manj umrljivega. ?e je vesolje za?asno si hitro misliš, da je ?loveško življenje nesmiselno. Zakaj bi se soloh ?esa lotil?

What's hectic about all this is the thought that I haven't asked to be here. I am just here. So is everybody else. We are all here. But we haven't asked to be. It's not our fault.

Death is the end of time, of individual time at least, and the switching to an eternal instant where differences no longer hold, choices no longer need to be made, and before and after are no longer relevant.

Dicen que el cuerpo es como el armario donde se guarda el alma. Está bien. Sin embargo, a veces, el alma es tan grande que el cuerpo, como grano de anís, se guarda en el alma.

Y para qué quieren ser libres si no saben ser libres? La libertad no es gracia que se recibe ni derecho que se conquista. Se es libre aunque se carezca de libertad. Los hierros y las cárceles no impiden que un hombre sea libre. La libertad de un hombre no es como la libertad de los pájaros que se satisface en el vaivén de un aroma. La libertad de un hombre está en su conciencia.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

We are gods with anuses.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.

What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

the essence of man is really his paradoxical nature, the fact that he is half animal and half symbolic.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

He felt as if he must leap somewhere out of the now, but everywhere it was now.

You don't live in the real world, Z. From what you've told me, I don't think you ever have. You're like me. You live inside this illusion." She motioned to our virtual surroundings.

We were all probably stuck here for the duration, on the third rock from our sun. Boldly going extinct.

There it was: number 42. Another of Halliday's jokes—according to one of his favorite novels, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 was the "Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The simulation had now become indistinguishable from real life.

A medida que leía las palabras que habían legado a la humanidad, iba comprendiendo cuál era la situación. Mi situación. Nuestra situación. Lo que la mayoría de la gente llamaba «la condición humana». Y no era nada bueno.

as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.