Quotes About Existence

The Tides themselves are full of movement and power so that, while they may not exactly be alive, neither are they not-alive.

Ketterley shrugged. 'A vision of cosmic grandeur, I suppose. A symbol of the mingled glory and horror of existence. No one gets out alive.

Since the World began it is certain that there have existed fifteen people.

As I walked, I was thinking of the Great and Secret Knowledge, which the Other says will grant us strange new powers. And I realized something. I realized that I no longer believed in it. Or perhaps that is not quite accurate. I thought it was possible that the Knowledge existed. Equally I thought that it was possible it did not. Either way it no longer mattered to me. I did not intend to waste my time looking for it any more. (pg. 60)

Don't ask me those questions! Don't ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer so much. Don't talk about how nothing feels real, how everything is coated with gelatin and shining like oil in the sun. I don't want to hear about the tiger in the corner or the Angel of Death or the phone calls from John the Baptist.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate entity with perceptions and reactions that express it and form it simultaneously. Disease is one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them. This was the way I felt about the tunnels. They weren't news to anybody else, but they made such an impression on me that I felt I'd conjured them into being.

Something had been peeled back, a covering or shell that works to protect us. I couldn't decide whether the covering was something on me or something attached to every thing in the world. It didn't matter, really; wherever it had been, it wasn't there anymore.

la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.

En la vida hace falta tener generosidad: cultivar el pequeño carácter propio sin ver nada más de lo que hay alrededor significa seguir respirando pero estar ya muerto.

Es más fácil morir de nada que de dolor, ante el dolor uno puede rebelarse, ante la nada, no.

Anl?yor musun? Böyledir bu dünya, yaÅŸam cömertlik ister: Ä°nsan?n kendi içindeki karekteri yetiÅŸtirmesi, ama bunu yaparken de çevredeki hiçbir ÅŸeyi alg?lamamas?, hâlâ soluk alsa da ölü olmaya benzer.

Cometer errores es natural, irse sin haberlos comprendido hace que se vuelva vano el sentido de una existencia. Las cosas que nos ocurren nunca son finalidades en sí mismas, gratuitas; cada encuentro, cada pequeño suceso encierra un significado, la comprensión de nosotros mismos nace de la disponibilidad para recibirlos, la capacidad de cambiar de dirección en cualquier momento, de dejar la vieja piel como las lagartijas al cambiar la estación.

Por el simple hecho de que existe el cuerpo - decía -, somos sombra de todas manera, somos anfibios como las ranas: una parte de nosotros vive aquí, en lo bajo, y la otra tiende hacia lo alto. Vivir es tan sólo tener conciencia de esto, saberlo, luchar para que la luz no desaparezca derrotada por la sombra. Desconfíe de quien es perfecto - me decía -, de quien tiene las soluciones ya listas en el bolsillo, desconfíe de todo, salvo de lo que le dice su corazón.

Cometer errores es natural, irse sin haberlos comprendido hace que se vuelva vano el sentido de una existencia.

I don't know why I'm still here. All right? And I'd just like to figure it out before I go.

Mahoney: You have to live. Mr. Magorium: Darlin'...I have.

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

The corporeal vampire, if he existed, would be by definition the greatest of all predators, living as he would off the top of the food chain.

As fire, though one, takes the shape of every object which it consumes, so the Self, though one, takes the shape of every object in which it dwells. (The Upanishads: Breath of the Eternal, pg. 35)

Thou art imperishable. Thou art changeless reality. Thou art the source of life.

He is within and without: He lives in the live and the lifeless: Subtle beyond mind's grasp; so near to us, so utterly distant: Undivided, He seems to divide into objects and creatures; Send creation forth from Himself, He upholds and withdraws it; Light of all lights, He abides beyond our ignorant darkness; Knowledge, the one thing real we may study or know, the heart's dweller.