Quotes About Existence

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality,' she said. 'A wrong name makes everything unreal.

Solo su verdadero nombre hace reales a todos los seres y todas las cosas. Un nombre falso lo convierte todo en irreal. Eso es lo que hace la mentira

Some hearts are unappreciative of time, I fear, though they beat like the rest.

In the end, it was only a few months that passed this way, and yet it was the longest period of time that Momo had ever lived through. Time can't simply be measured with a clock and a calendar, just as words alone can't describe the kind of loneliness Momo knew in these months.

Bohr Before we can lay our hands on anything, our life's over. Heisenberg Before we can glimpse who or what we are, we're gone and laid to dust. Bohr Settled among all the dust we raised. Margrethe And sooner or later there will come a time when all our children are laid to dust, and all our children's children.

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

But that one single soul was emperor of the universe, no less than each of us.

I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. Don't you know, the rabbi told him, that you are no longer among the living? You are in the Land of Confusion. On hearing the story, the rabbi's son worried that he too was in the Land of Confusion. Once you know that there exists such a world, you cannot be in it, explained the father. (208)

All the world is luminous and terrible, full of pain.

Well, we start with this outrageous idea that the ground of being, existence itself, is a person, and that this person is intimately concerned with each of our lives and desires us to turn our hearts toward him. Once you accept that level of insanity—or faith, as we prefer to call it—then it makes perfect sense to try to discern what God's purpose is for your life through a disciplined process of prayer and self-examination, discernment, as we say.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

The purpose of our existence is to rise above the boundaries of this world and feel the entirety of the system known as "Nature," the upper force. When we achieve this degree, we will be filled with abundance, infinite pleasure and light, with sublime perception and understanding, a sense of balance, wholeness, and harmony as they exist in the overall Nature.

Time is a variable continuum.

My interest in psychology was as a way to do philosophy," he said. "To understand the world by understanding why people, especially me, see it as they do. By then the question of whether God exists left me cold. But the question of why people believe God exists I found really fascinating. I was not really interested in right and wrong. But I was very interested in indignation. Now that's a psychologist!

El hombre es un artefacto determinista metido en un universo probabilístico

Hell is not a place. It's not a noun, child. It's a verb.

Mythic imagination can break the spell of time and open us to a level of life that remains timeless. Myth is not about what happened in past times; myth is about what happens to people all of the time.

I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of living on and on.

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatures who were still little more than animals. It was as if vultures feasted on and squabbled over the paralyzed body of the youthful poet who could only stare at them with puzzled eyes as they slowly robbed him of an exquisite existence they would never appreciate, never know they were taking.

If we are the toys of the gods are not perhaps the gods themselves mere children?

Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace—but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!

Know this. Elric cannot have want he desires most. What he desires does not exist. What he desires is dead. All Elric has is sorrow, guilt, malice, hatred. This is all he deserves and all he will ever desire.

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.