Quotes About Existence

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.

Let us consider the way in which we spend our lives.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I had not lived . .

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately... I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow out of life! To put to rout all that was not life... and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

La nostra vera vita è quando siamo svegli nei sogni.

To stand on the meeting of two eternities; the past and future

There is nowhere recorded a simple and irrepressible satisfaction with the gift of life

Fui a los bosques porque quería vivir deliberadamente, enfrentar solo los hechos esenciales de la vida, y ver si no podía aprender lo que ella tenia que enseñar, no sea que cuando estuviera por morir descubriera que no había vivido».

La mayoría de los hombres lleva vidas de tranquila desesperación. Lo que se llama resignación es desesperación confirmada.

When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way.

Si tuviera que vender mis mañanas y mis tardes a la sociedad, como hace la mayoría, estoy seguro de que no me quedaría nada por lo que vivir... No hay mayor equivocación que consumir la mayor parte de la vida en ganarse el sustento

I went to the woods because I wished to live delibertely, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

La libert? existe toujours. Il suffit d`en payer le prix. -La vie, ce n`est pas la prise, c`est desir. -Le suicide est le dernier acte par lequel un homme puisse montrer qu`il a domin? sa vie.

I cannot answer the question, 'Who am I?' except in terms of some sort of statement of the plans and purposes of my life," said Josiah Royce seventy years ago in The Philosophy of Loyalty. "I should say that a person, an individual self, may be defined as a human life lived according to a plan . . .

He had indeed conversed so entirely with money, that it may almost be doubted whether he imagined there was any other thing really existing in the world; this at least may be certainly averred, that he firmly believed nothing else to have any real value.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live...

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live

He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.