Quotes About Existence

I don't have any special talents, just an ordinary desire to live like a human being.

You were right, said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.

You pronounced your words as if you don't acknowledge the shadows, or the evil either. Would you be so kind as to give a little thought to the question of what your good would be doing if evil did not exist, and how the earth would look if the shadows were to disappear from it?

You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?

Tak, czÅ'owiek jest Å›miertelny, ale to jeszcze póÅ' biedy. Najgorsze, ?e to, i? jest Å›miertelny, okazuje siÄ™ niespodziewanie, w tym wÅ'aÅ›nie sÄ™k!

Yes, man is mortal, but that isn't so bad. What's bad is that sometimes he's unexpectedly mortal, that's the rub. And, in general, he can't even say in the morning what he'll be doing that very same night.

But this is what disturbs me: if there is no God, then, the question is, who is in control of man's life and the whole order of things on earth?

Cz?owiek jest ?miertelny i jak to kto? s?usznie powiedzia?, to, i? jest ?miertelny, okazuje si? niespodziewanie.

No, to rzeczywiÅ›cie nie sÄ… pieniÄ…dze – lekcewa??co powiedziaÅ' do swego goÅ›cia Woland – chocia? szczerze mówiÄ…c, nawet tyle nie jest panu potrzebne. - Kiedy ma pan zamiar umrze??

Yes, man is mortal, but that would still be just a minor problem. The bad thing is that he's sometimes suddenly mortal, and that's the whole point! And he can't possibly say what he's going to be doing the same evening.

Kindly consider the question: what would your good do if evil did not exist, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?

Do you know with whom you are presently speaking?' Woland asked the visitor. Whose guest are you? 'I do,' replied the master, 'my neighbour in the madhouse was that boy, Ivan Homeless. He told me about you.' 'Ah, yes, yes,' Woland responded, 'I had the pleasure of meeting that young man at the Patriarch's Ponds. He almost drove me mad myself, proving to me that I don't exist. But you do believe that it is really I?

Vai tu neb?tu tik labs un nepadom?tu par t?du jaut?jumu: ja nepast?v?tu ?aunums, k?da noz?me b?tu labajam, un k? izskat?tos zeme, ja no t?s vaiga izgaistu visas ?nas?

El hombre es mortal, y, como acertadamente se dijo, es mortal de repente.

But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?

Che cosa sarebbe il tuo bene se non ci fosse il male, e come apparirebbe la terra se non ci fossero le ombre? Le ombre nascono dagli oggetti e dalle persone. Ecco l'ombra della mia spada. Ma ci sono le ombre degli alberi e degli esseri viventi. Non vorrai per caso sbucciare tutto il globo terrestre buttando via tutti gli alberi e tutto ciò che è vivo per godere nella tua fantasia della nuda luce?

qué haría tu bien si no existiera el mal y qué aspecto tendría la tierra si desaparecieran las sombras? Los hombres y los objetos producen sombras. Ésta es la sombra de mi espada. También hay sombras de árboles y seres vivos. ¿No querrás raspar toda la tierra, arrancar los árboles y todo lo vivo para gozar de la luz desnuda? Eres un necio.

Your interlocutor was at Pilate's, and had breakfast with Kant, and now he's visiting Moscow

Da, ?ovjek je smrtan, ali to bi bilo tek pola nevolje. Zlo je u tome što je nejgova smrt katkada posve iznenadna, eto u ?emu je trik! I op?enito, on ne može re?i ?ak ni što ?e raditi danas nave?er.

What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by living things and people.

Yes, he is dead, dead...But we--we are alive! (67)

What would your good do if evil didn't exist_

I have observed that there always exists some strange relationship between the appearance of a man and his soul, as if with the loss of a limb, the soul lost one of its senses.

And, maybe, I will die tomorrow! . . . And not one being on this earth will have ever understood me totally. Some thought of me as worse, some as better, than I actually am . . . Some will say "he was a good fellow," others will say I was a swine. Both one and the other would be wrong. Given this, does it seem worth the effort to live? And yet, you live, out of curiosity, always wanting something new . . . Amusing and vexing!