Quotes About Existence

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Being told when to shit, shower, shave, eat, and sleep isn't my idea of paradise. But then again, Paradise, where i grew up, wasn't paradise either. I'm wondering if paradise is just some word in the dictionary with the definition: this doesn't fucking exist. --Caleb to himself

You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.

Do I even know how to be real?

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day...the here, the now.

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now." "And

I loved the ox, and every day I congratulated myself on being of this world.

and I think of the Negro's life and of its mystery. We have no more marks to guide us than the bird in the air or the fish in the water, and in the midst of this uncertainty we live, and some laugh and others sing.

After she'd eaten her custard I took her head in my lap, and she talked to me of the balance of nature and the planets, the permanence of the sky and the stars, and of suffering, which after all is only another way of existing.

Ici nous sommes sur terre, Wilnor, et sur terre c'est le tourbillon et la fumée, ce ne sont pas les grandes allées droites du ciel.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

I can, therefore I am.

You think a moment is but a small speck, by it encapsulates an entire world.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

For in the country, farm or town, you always know. No one's just there. There's always a source, a why and wherefore.

There comes a time when we have to put "knowing" aside and stick to "being.

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

An individual is a four-dimensional objectof greatly elongated form; in ordinary language we say he has considerable extension in time and insignificant extension in space.

We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.

Sinto que nas minha veias arde um desejo mais ardente do que o de amor: é o Desejo de não me assemelhar aos da minha espécie, mas de excedê-los, o desejo de penetrar no segredo da sua própria existência e de participar dele, o desejo de um conhecimento sobrenatural e de um poder supraterrestre.