Quotes About Existence

After all, it wasn't food; it was survival.

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful.

Thinking: The world is. It just is.

Stop searching. Face the earth where you can. Literally speaking, it's all you have to go on.

But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed.

Though possibly it–the answer–is simple: it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life when it is pure and plain, makes our existence seem like a border between two nothings, and makes us no more or less than animals who meet on the road-watchful, unforgiving, without patience or desire.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

that life can't be escaped and must be faced entirely.

Against these forces -- an earth rotating, a sun lowering its angle in the sky, winds filling with rain and the geese arriving -- time is just a made-up thing, and recedes in importance, and should.

I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.

I was born into an ordinary, modern existence in 1945, an only child to decent parents of no irregular point of view, no particular sense of their place in history's continuum, just two people afloat on the world and expectant like most others in time, without a daunting conviction about their own consequence.

Life is full of surprises, a wise man said, and would not be worth having if it were not.

an infinite remoteness underlies us all.

I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

that jail existed for the opposite reason from why your home existed

We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.

I believe in what you see being most of what there is, as I've taught my students, and that life's passed along to us empty. So, while significance weighs heavy, that's the most it does. Hidden meaning is all but absent.

Though possibly the answer is simple: it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life when it is pure and plain, makes our existence seem like a border between two nothings, and makes us no more or less than animals who meet on the road watchful, unforgiving, without patience or desire.

You could call it the one big box, outside which there isn't another box.

Fragment 9: We have as One in us that which is living and dead, waking and sleeping, young and old: because these having transformed are those, and those having transformed are these. The

Nature is the expression of the Logos, as are human beings, and our task is to wake up and participate consciously.

Consciousness is the stone that creates the waves in a sea of nothing

I was sayin' let me out of here before I was even born.

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