Quotes About Existence

Eppure resta che qualcosa è accaduto, forse un niente che è tutto.

Difficile è credere che sia un dono la vita, quando si trascina una stanca esistenza e il vivere d'ora in ora ci tortura; ma anche nei tuoi occhi vedo brume di dolore. Hanno già flagellato il tuo giovane cuore? E rispose per te il mare e un' ombra lieve di cormorano. Tacevi e sogguardavi mesta l'orizzonte estremo.

Chi vuole respirare a grandi zaffate la musa del nostro tempo la precarietà può passare di qui senza affrettarsi è il colpo secco quello che fa orrore non già l'evanescenza il dolce afflato del nulla ...

But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Today's today. Tomorrow, we may beourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.

Account no man happy till he dies.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

El amor apasionado implica dolor y ese dolor no nos debe atormentar. En palabras de Franzen, "el dolor duele pero no mata. Si uno considera la alternativa —un sueño anestesiado de autosuficiencia que la tecnología ampara—, el dolor surge como producto e indicador natural del estar vivo en un mundo que resiste. Vivir una vida entera sin dolor es no haber vivido".

And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.

Strange how deeply they reside and how one memory pulls out the next like links in a chain, until at times you find that even the subtlest thoughts you had decades ago are sill hidden somewhere inside of you.

some people go skimming over the years of existence to sink gently into a placid grave, ignorant of life to the last, without ever having been made to see all it may contain; and

A song about post-teenage angst like 'Mad World' seems to be permanently relevant.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?

There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and that your audience will still be there to support you - and that your publisher will still exist.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

I'm an atheist. I don't have a religion.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

Most religions assume that you find purpose through some agent that sits above or outside the world and imbues it with purpose.

Most cultures believe, and most religions believe, that there is a spirit, there is a soul, there is something that happens when we die where this spirit leaves our body.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I'm not religious, but I feel like there has to be a higher power up there.

I like to keep an open mind, but I do think there is some form of energy that exists separate to our flesh and blood. I do think that there's some kind of an energy that leaves the body when it dies, but I certainly don't have religious beliefs particularly.