Quotes About Existence

American history has always had elements of what we now think of as Trumpism - Joe McCarthy, George Wallace, Father Coughlin. It's not as if these things haven't always existed, and they were powerful. The big difference is Trump is president.

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.

Gangs are a part of living in Los Angeles, but you can exist in Inglewood or Culver City or anywhere else, without joining one.

Am I over existing or am I over existing? That's my inside joke.

Siamo gli attori ingenui su una scena di un palcoscenico misterioso e immenso.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

What then remains but that we still should cryFor being born, and, being born, to die?

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born, to die?

It's all so meaningless, we may as well be extraordinary.

Ölmek de doÄŸmak gibi doÄŸal bir ÅŸeydir; yeni doÄŸan bir bebek için, doÄŸmak da ölmek kadar ac? verir.

Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

If you really love life you're walking in the shadow of death all the time...Death is the shadow of life, and the more one is obsessed with life the more one is obsesses with death. I'm greedy for life and I'm greedy as an artist. Francis Bacon in conversation in Daniel Farson

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Gradually a change came over Willoughby. It showed itself first in a distinct gain of strength that overjoyed her. All his life, in the sodden midlands and in the clearer cold of Central Europe, Willoughby's body had simply struggled for existence; whatever vitality he possessed had been poured out daily to nourish the pale, exotic flower of his music. In this blander climate, like a starved plant that rejoices in a genial soil, the musician became a man.

It is not enough that I have a sense of my own worth if other people do not publicly acknowledge it or, worse yet, if they denigrate me or don't acknowledge my existence.

Another way of approaching the thing is to consider it unnamed, unnamable.

Et il y a des gens qui trouvent que tout cela ne grouille pas assez, qui font des vers, de la poésie, de la surréalité, qui en rajoutent. [...] Les réincarnations, les paradis, les enfers, enfin quoi : après la vie, la mort encore à vivre !

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.

to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error