Quotes About Existence

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.

Y ustedes y yo y todos sabemos que el tiempo es más pesado que la más pesada carga que puede soportar el hombre.

Atravesar la angustia es reencontrar el lugar de nacimiento de aquel que nunca dejé de ser.

I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right man, no doubt I should eat my words with a ready appetite. The simple fact is, I have never seen him yet, and at the age of thirty, reason inclines me rather to conclude that he does not exist, than to persist in the belief that he is still somewhere to be found

It was perturbing to look long at your reflection: to realise that all the time you were there in the world, visible, undeniable

Some people have to carry a mirror and watch themselves living to feel they're alive at all.

There is the everyday truth of things, and there is the ideal. We must somehow live between them.

But everything that never was is also a thing that might have been – and such a thing has more existence than you or I, for it has a thousand potential existences, and we have only the one we were born to. And of all those possibilities, what could be more fantastical a transformation?

For there is no such thing as a moment. Call it a second, or an instant, if you like. Now cut it in half – for there is naught in creation so small it cannot be divided. So now the moment is two – so which was the moment of love? Both, part one, part t'other? It can't be. A moment exists only when we look back at it. All in the heart and mind is flux and process, so it hardly signifies which moment we show in how the lady changes, so long as it convinces.

Earth: the tangible realm of mortal people and creatures • Spirit World: the realm of deities and spiritual beings—angels, fairies, djinn, and so forth • Dreamland: experiences in dreams really happen; just on a different plane of existence • Realm of the Dead: the after-life

Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign of its own existence outside itself, in a discourse that is at once dominant and indifferent. Social categories signify subordination and existence at once. In other words, within subjection the price of existence is subordination.

There was only this, the past that you carried in your memory, and the present, which was undecipherable, and the unknowable future, which might already be inside you, leaking out in unreadable script but which you could never in a million years guess.

I believe that perception does not shape your life; it is your life.

Abiding Practice can remind us that there is nothing we need for wholeness that does not already exist within us.

Te willen hebben, een huis in de duinen. Te willen hebben, verzamelde werken. Te willen hebben, één blauwe veer. Te willen hebben, een zinvol bestaan. Te willen hebben, gehad.

He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

I was content to dwell on the new idea that had come to me that all things and states were just varieties of light, and that in every form, light was the emanation and manifestation of God.

What would you have me do, Odo? We're all terminal cases. Even our cultures. Even our worlds. A hundred years for an individual and he's gone, only a memory for a hundred more, at most. Perhaps longer if he's someone to whom they build statues. But after a thousand years, whom do we really remember?

If you and I are only shadows, or faulty conglomerations of the four elements, or a dance of atoms in the void, why is life so sweet?

Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.

I got an A in philosophy because I proved that my professor didn't exist.