Quotes About Existence

Ay de los que mueren dormidos en el momento en que no se sueña porque se irán a la nada con nada!

La humanidad necesita para vivir mitos y mentiras. Si uno ve la verdad escueta se pega un tiro.

Creemos que existimos pero no, somos un espejismo de la nada, un sueño de basuco

yo no inventé esta realidad es ella la que me está inventando a mí…

somos una pesadilla de Dios, que es loco…

respecto al origen del mundo, si es que lo tuvo, no nos queda más remedio que aceptar que nunca sabremos cómo ocurrió y que Dios es una explicación necia que no explica nada pues es tan difícil imaginar la eternidad suya como la de la materia. Dios es la vuelta del bobo: lo postulamos para entender cuanto no entendemos, pero sin entenderlo a Él.

El pleno derecho de existir sólo lo pueden tener los viejos. Los niños tiene que probar primer que lo merecen: sobreviviendo.

los ricos son los administradores de los bienes de Dios ¿habrase visto mayor disparate? Dios no existe y el que no existe no tiene bienes…

In absolute incommunicableness it stood apart, a thought, a system of thought which as yet had no symbol in spoken language

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.

Our minds are a series of graves in a wall. Our non-entities are all there when the register is called, gluttonous creatures; sometimes they fly up like vultures to hide the faces of those we loved. A multitude of faces dwell in the graves, a rich pasturage.

Nothingness is the stuff of thought. Beings, autonomous voices, memories dredged up, following the lapping of the water. Nothingness is not empty.

I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

For all I had heard about ancestors, I had no wish to be one. The idea of having children so they could have children so they could have children frightened me. It seemed so pointless, like that blissful measure of time in Heaven that so comforted the devout: 'If a bird transferred every grain of sand on every beach, grain by grain, and dropped them in the ocean, that is the beginning of eternity.

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

Man must live suspended in the moment.

Por qué algunos vendremos a este mundo sólo a sufrir?

Hay dos formas de ver la vida: una es creer que no existen los milagros; la otra es creer que todo es un milagro. Albert Einstein, científico alemán (1879-1955)

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.