Quotes About Existence

the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders. Here

Why does Lao-tze say that to be born is to exit and to die is to enter?

I no longer felt alone and it gave me, not strength, but a sweet sensation of happiness, though I knew sadness was lurking not far off, because all being arises from nonbeing, and everything that exists derives from its opposite.

I cieli non sono umani e la vita sopra di me e sotto di me e dentro di me neppure.

Nebesa nejsou humánní a život nade mnou a pode mnou a ve mnÄ› také ne.

No, the heavens are not humane, nor is any man with a head on his shoulders.

O Céu não é humano, mas talvez exista algo mais do que este Céu, a compaixão e o amor que eu há muito esquecera e apagara da memória.

When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air.

Life is fidelity to the beauty exploding all around us, even, at times, at the cost of our own lives.

Ach panenkomarjá, ten život je stejnÄ› k zeÅ¡ílení krásnej. Ne že by byl, ale já to tak vidím.

jsem džbán plný živé a mrtvé vody

When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air, because in the end everything is air, just as the host is and is not the blood of Christ.

We appear in order to have our experiences.

clearly remembering who you are: one with all existence. Therefore, the universal consciousness within you awakens itself.

we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying.

For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement. Youth really believes what is running water to be a permanent crystallization and sees time fixed to a point: some people have dark hair, some people have blond hair, some people have gray hair. Until this moment, Alice had no conviction that there was a universe before she came into it. She had always thought of it as the background of herself: the moon was something to make her prettier on a summer night.

The impossibility of penetrating the divine pattern of the universe cannot stop us from planning human patterns, even though we are conscious they are not definitive.

Really, nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic, that is to say, whether the world is a natural process or whether it is a kind of dream, a dream that we may or may not share with others.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

All in all, Varya felt much the same as she had in the restaurant of the Hotel Royale when the men had caught the scent of blood and run wild, entirely forgetting that she even existed - yet another proof that by his very nature man was closer to the animal world than woman, that the feral principle was more pronounced in man, and therefore the true variety of Homo Sapiens was indeed woman, the more advanced, subtle and complex being.

Philosophy is the preparation for death - for leaving the cave of earthly, corporeal existence. And the preparation for death is a lonely and quiet activity - it is the activity of contemplation.

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.