Quotes About Existence

What else would anyone want to know? Personality: Tense. Is that past or present tense? It's perpetual tense.

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.

Love is further than death.

We are here to prepare for not being here.

To be human was to be homeless, furthest removed from the blessing of God.

Plants have lived in the Now for a long time but they still have to have some things explained to them.

To be anywhere other than the now is to paint eyeballs on chaos.

But there was a rumble of panic underneath everything. And if it wasn't the fear of death, what was it? She felt it always, the terror, even in the brightest moments. What was it then, when she didn't even care?

Your child dreads to become alive and real because he fears that in doing so, the risk of annihilation is immediately potentiated.

Pearl suspected God didn't love human beings much. She suspected that what He loved most was Nothingness.

The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Perhaps the human race had yet to be born. Perhaps it was all a deception by the government. It hadn't happened yet. This life was nothing but the womb.

What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

All this suffering,' I said, 'and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.' 'Have another soda-mint,' said Charles. I had one. Then I said, 'Why are we here? That's what I don't understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?' 'I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.' 'Then why do we want to be happy? Mould on cheese doesn't want to be happy.' ...

Those times a person feels most afraid for their life? Those are the times you know you're alive.

Te das cuenta de que, al igual que esos oscuros párrafos que sólo entregan su contenido tras repetidas lecturas y sólo se leen realmente si no se han comprendido, siempre estamos viviendo lo que ya hemos vivido y en cada instante no nos queda más que nuestra pasada experiencia?

consciente de su estatura, de su cansancio, de que la existencia del pasado depende de la cantidad del presente que le damos, y que es posible darle poca, darle ninguna.

Imaginé al hombre cuando bajaba trotando hacia el hotel, después del abrazo; consciente de su estatura, de su cansancio, de que la existencia del pasado depende de la cantidad del presente que le demos, y que es posible darle poca, darle ninguna.

Vivir aquí es como si el tiempo no pasara, como si pasara sin poder tocarme, como si me tocara sin cambiarme

Ignoraba que estaba vacilando entre su verdadero nacimiento y la permanencia en la nada.

La fe es creer en lo que sabemos que no existe»

su vida no se puede contabilizar sólo por los minutos que le restan, sino por las palabras no dichas.

A person doesn't have to do anything but die.