Quotes About Existence

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

The recognition that the human race is not alone in the universe and is dependent, at least to some extent, on the ultimate which is beyond is the starting place for religion.

In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean, the earth, through trees, animals, through other human beings, through ourselves. She is here. She is within us all

Does it matter that people and things Have words, Have names? If not, Why read any book? A litany of useless letters Detached from bone, muscle. Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement, Person Real?

And if, indeed, there is nothing beyond the corner? Who can affirm if beyond so-called 'reality' anything exists at all? Beyond a reality that I have probably created? As long as I'm steeped in this reality up to my neck, as long as it is sufficient for me—everything is tolerable. But what would happen if I wanted one day to lean out of my safe environment and glance beyond its borders?

you can call human beings stellar nuclear waste.

we find nothing that gives our lives an objective meaning.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Aber jeder Schatten ist im letzen doch auch Kind des Lichts, und nur wer Helles und Dunkles, Krieg und Frieden, Aufstieg und Niedergang erfahren, nur der hat wahrhaft gelebt.

My today and each of my yesterdays, my rises and falls, are so diverse that I sometimes feel as if I had lived not one, but several existences, each one different from the others.

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.

Yapacak, duyacak, görecek hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu, her yerde ve sürekli hiçlikle çevriliydi insan, boyuttan ve zamandan tümüyle yoksun, boÅŸlukta.

Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

Bize bir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, sadece mutlak hiçliÄŸe soktular, çünkü dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar bask? yapmayaca?? bilinir....

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, bizi tümüyle hiçliÄŸin içine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhuna hiçlik kadar bask? yapmaz.

Çünkü sadece kendi kaderlerini bir gizem olarak yaÅŸayabilenlerin gerçek anlamda yaÅŸad?klar?na inan?yorum.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

For only he who lives his life as a mystery is truly alive.

I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own

Ben yaÅŸam? daha önce hiç bu denli arzuyla yaÅŸamam??t?m ve ÅŸimdi biliyorum ki, kendiyle ilgili durumlarda kay?ts?zlaÅŸan herkes bir suç iÅŸleyecektir.

Ben kendimi, ?????n hiçbir zaman içinde kalmadan geçip gittiÄŸi camdan bir nesne gibi hissettim.