Quotes About Existence

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.

The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

He told me there was no past. Or should I say, that the past is always on and waiting.

I teetered between a dazed existence and hyper-awareness. At times, I walked around in a state of confusion, unable to focus on anything, as if I weren't fully alive.

Things aren't bad or good. They just are.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [ Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe , Locus Magazine, September 1998]

Pese a todo, la vida y la muerte son estados misteriosos, y sabemos poco de los resortes de uno y otro.

All things proceed from Nature—don't they? All things in the heaven, in the earth, and under the earth, act and live as Nature ordains?

Perhaps other souls than human are sometimes born into the world, and clothed in flesh.

Woman is not "in reality" any closer to (or further from) nature than man - both have consciousness, both are mortal.

M]ountaineering as a sport both emanates from and addresses itself back to (and back against) the normal patterns of middle class life. One of the dominant discourses of mountaineering [...] positions it critically against "bourgeois" existence, even as the sport demands the resources made possible by such an existence.

He glanced at her. "You were the moon of my existence; your moods dictated the tides of my heart." The tides of her own heart surged at his words, even though his words were nothing but lies.

For what is the Void but the beginning of Light? What is Light but the end of Fear? And what am I, but Light given from? What am I, but the beginning of Eternity?

She had managed to get to the truth of the matter in every case that had been entrusted to her. But truth had a vicious way of upsetting everything else on its way to the surface. And he was hard-pressed to say, as someone whose existence had been repeatedly convulsed by recent overdoses of truth, whether there had been anything satisfactory to the aftermaths.