Quotes About Existence

I pull out my notebook from my bag and open it. I read through all the pages I've written. It makes me feel more substantial, somehow. I do exist. I am me. This is the story of my heart.

Within depression, if my existence is on the verge of collapsing, its lack of meaning is not tragic--it appears obvious to me, glaring and inescapable.

How can I be without border?

the abject] is simply a frontier, a repulsive gift that the Other, having become alter ego, drops so that the "I" does not disappear in it but finds, in that sublime alienation, a forfeited existence.

In his last days on this earth, he'd wanted to know if this was all there was.

A veces necesitamos de los sueños para poder vivir la realidad.

Sólo si queda escrito que existimos, lo que hicimos y en qué creíamos, nuestra historia no será olvidada.

puesto que sólo hay uno, se le llame como se le llame, se le rece como se le rece, se le perciba como se le perciba.

Hasta para no creer en Dios se tiene una idea de Dios

he aprendido que la tierra no es nada sin los hombres, que lo que importan son los seres humanos.

Desconocer la historia le hace sentirse mejor? ¿Cree que por no conocerla no ha existido?

la inteligencia era un don que Él otorgaba a algunos hombres para hacer más fácil la existencia de los otros, y para combatir a quienes, siendo igualmente inteligentes, se dejaban inspirar por el Mal.

La vida no nos pertenece, es un préstamo.

Is what worth it?' He let go of her hand just long enough to wave at the crowd. 'This. This endless parade of parties' ... She fell silent for a moment, her eyes taking on a faraway look as she said, 'But yes, I suppose it is worth it. It has to be worth it ... I want a husband. I want a family. It's not so silly when you think about it. I'm fourth of eight children. All I know are large families. I shouldn't know how to exist outside of one.

You are the reason I exist," she said softly, "the very reason I was born.

Death wasn't frightening to a man alone. The great beyond held no terror when one had managed to avoid attachments here on earth.

How many great mysteries are there in life, really?" No one answered, so Colin guessed, "Forty-two?

Do you think that there is a corner of this Earth that you could travel to far away enough to free me from this torment? I am a gentleman. My father raised me to act with honor, but that honor is hanging by a thread that grows more precarious with every moment I spend in your presence. You are the bane of my existence, and the object of all my desires.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

I've always said the first duty of life is to live it, and I do believe that. And we delude ourselves if we think it's not going to end. How we individually meet that, I think, is entirely individual.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.