Quotes About Existence

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

We don't see a lot of LGBTQ representation in period dramas because there was so much shame around it at the time. The stories that we tell about that time don't tend to focus explicitly on those sorts of characters, which is nonsense because they existed.

Political life is like this - elections go back and forth. Representative democracy can only be successful if one sits down and says, 'That's it. I will connect myself,' - as I did - 'connect my existence to a political project.' Then you automatically have in your party a lot of people who say, 'If that fails, so do I'.

I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

If I could go to dinner with one person, alive or dead, I think I would choose alive.

I don't believe watching dreams but like to stick to reality. Reality is all about flood, hunger, illness.

Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition.

The soul is an illusion.

There's no such thing as the greatest of all time. It doesn't exist. It's an illusion.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.