Quotes About Existence

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time

We all begin to die from the moment we are born. Some do it faster than others. All we can do is enjoy our lives.

God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

None of us could know how insignificant we were...

The goal of all life is death.

A culture which leaves unsatisfied and drives to rebelliousness so large a number of its members neither has a prospect of continued existence nor deserves it.

Here is what I learned: Simone Weil was right. Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring.

Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.

Stay calm and do not flee from Him who has been seeking you before you even existed in your mother's womb.

In New York, the buildings are like mountains in some ways, but they are only alive because of the people living in them. Real mountains are alive all over.

Maybe all the trees were God.--A Parchment of Leaves

Moriré? —Necesariamente, no —respondía Magush—. Puedes vivir sin un destino —Pero hasta los perros tienen destino —protesté yo. —Los perros no pueden evitarlo: son obedientes.

Recordar el presente es alargar más el tiempo.

recuerdo de los seres normales, son brevísimos y casi inexistentes para quien los prevé y solamente los vive.

Acaso el infierno que le estaba destinado sería peor que el mundo infernal en que estaba viviendo?

A determinist perspective designed to ensure the people's docile acceptance of the circumstances of their existence: the king, the state, the land?

But to "bring something to light" is not to question its existence, but merely to decide whether or not something should be permitted within the realm of the real, the realm of the ruler (of that which is measurable), or to leave it outside the realm, in the "outer darkness.

Lifetimes went past. With the critical mass of hardly more than the thought of a thought I kept on, headlong, to vanishing point. I looked for an end, for some dimension to hold hard and resist. But I still exist.

If I breathed the word That disappeared all people in the world, leaving the world to the world, would you say it? Would you sing it out loud?

I don't go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn't depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

But it is logically impossible that there could exist an 'unowned' dent, a dent without a surface that is dented.