Quotes About Existence

There is no one there to see it. The world is doing what it always does, demonstrating itself to itself. The world has no interest in the little figures that come and go, the phantoms that worry and worship, that rake the graveled paths and erect the occasional rock garden, the bronze boy-man, the hammered cup for snow to fall into.

He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

You don't have to matter any more than you do right now.

This determined, abiding fascination is what she thinks of as her soul (an embarrassing, sentimental word, but what else to call it?); the part that might conceivably survive the death of the body.

Yine de bu kaba ve y?k?lmaz dünyay? seviyor, baÅŸkalar?n?n da sevdiÄŸini biliyor, hem yoksullar?n hem zenginlerin, hiç kimse bunun nedenlerinden özel olarak söz etmese de. Yoksa, ne kadar karars?z olsak da, ne kadar yara alm?? olsak da neden yaÅŸamak için çaba harcayal?m ki?

What you are, more than anything, is alive.

It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow...

It's remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow, passing the window of the liquor store, which offers an array of bottles surrounded by tiny blinking lights,; seeing her own reflection skim across the glass; being, once again, able to recieve the ordinary pleasures, boots on the pavement, hands in the pockets of her jacket...

She'd taken on the obligation to be a treasure. And the strain was starting to show. People paid a price for this kind of orderly existence, all this obedience.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live to the point.

Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have.

Nothing lasts, not forever. Not laughter, not lust, not even life itself. Not forever. Which is why we make the most of what we have. Why

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

Las empresas existen sólo porque la gente quiere que existan.

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing. The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

But time is life, and life exists in our hearts, and the more of it that the people saved, the less they actually had.

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula. Pero nunca estuvo a mi alcance poder elegir otra. Uno no deja de ser quien es. La libertad existe solo en el futuro. En el pasado ya no se puede encontrar. Nadie puede escoger otro pasado. Todo lo que sucede tenía que suceder como sucedió. A posteriori todo es inevitable. A priori nada. Lo único que importa es despertar del sueño.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

No existe el instante, sólo el pasado o el futuro. Porque ahora, por ejemplo, este instante… cuando hablo de él ya ha pasado.

Oh, nothing can happen more than once, but all things must happen one day.

Porque el tiempo es vida, y la vida nace en el corazón.