Quotes About Existence

Y es que las preguntas verdaderamente serias son aquellas que pueden ser formuladas hasta por un niño. Sólo las preguntas más ingenuas son verdaderamente serias. Son preguntas que no tienen respuesta. Una pregunta que no tiene respuesta es un barrera que no puede atravesarse. Dicho de otro modo: precisamente las preguntas que no tienen respuesta son las que determinan las posibilidades del ser humano, son las que trazan las fronteras de la existencia del hombre.

El hombre no es más que su imagen. Los filósofos pueden decirnos que es irrelevante lo que el mundo piense de nosotros, que sólo vale lo que somos. Pero los filósofos no comprenden nada. En la medida en que vivimos con la gente, no somos más que lo que la gente piensa que somos.

Cómo es posible condenar algo fugaz?

If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naïve of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

El hombre lo vive todo a la primera y sin preparación. Como si un actor representase su obra sin ningún tipo de ensayo. Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma? Por eso la vida parece un boceto. Pero ni siquiera boceto es la palabra precisa, porque un boceto es siempre un borrador de algo, la preparación para un cuadro, mientras que el boceto que es nuestra vida es un boceto para nada, un borrador sin cuadro.

For it is clear immediately: human life as such is a defeat. All we can do in the face of that ineluctable defeat called life is to try to understand it. That - that is the raison d'être of the art of the novel.

DüÅŸüncenin yakla??kl??? ile gerçeÄŸin kesinliÄŸi aras?nda düÅŸlenemez olan?n yaratt??? küçük bir boÅŸluk vard? ve onun bir türlü peÅŸini b?rakmayan da bu boÅŸluktu.

Hiçbir tehlike olmamas?na raÄŸmen, hayat?ndaki bir an?n diÄŸer bütün anlar gibi hiçliÄŸe dönüÅŸecek yerde zaman?n ak???ndan kopar?laca??n? ve gün gelip aptalca bir rastlant?n?n sonucunda iyi gömülmemiÅŸ bir ceset gibi canland?r?laca??n? düÅŸünerek belli bir s?k?nt? duymaktan alam?yordu kendini.

Dios les dio a los hombres la libertad y por eso podemos suponer que al fin y al cabo no es responsable de los crímenes humanos. Pero el único responsable de la mierda es aquel que creó al hombre.

He had come to find out that reality was more than a dream, much more than a dream!

Asl?nda, gerçekten ciddi olan sorular bir çocuÄŸun bile dile getirebileceÄŸi sorulard?r.Yaln?zca en çocuksu sorular gerçekten ciddi olan sorulard?r.Cevaplar? olmayan sorulard?r bunlar.Cevab? olmayan soru a??lamayacak bir engeldir.BaÅŸka bir deyiÅŸle insani olas?l?klar?n s?n?rlar?n? belirleyen ,insan varoluÅŸunun s?n?rlar?n? saptayan cevab? olmayan sorulard?r.

Tener un hijo significa manifestar que se está de acuerdo con el hombre. Si tengo un hijo, es como si dijera: He nacido, he experimentado la vida y he comprobado que es tan buena que merece ser repetida.

L'insignifiance, mon ami, c'est l'essence de l'existence. Elle est avec nous partout et toujours. Elle est présente même là où personne ne veut la voir : dans les horreurs, dans les luttes sanglantes, dans les pires malheurs. Cela exige souvent du courage pour la reconnaître dans des conditions aussi dramatiques et pour l'appeler par son nom. Mais il ne s'agit pas seulement de la reconnaître, il faut l'aimer, l'insignifiance, il faut apprendre à l'aimer.

Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.)

Non si può mai sapere che cosa si deve volere perché si vive una vita soltanto e non si può ne confrontarla con le proprie vite precedenti, né correggerla nelle vite future.

Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of earth abd his earthy being, and become half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.

Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.

The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

y life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all. The history of the Czechs will not be repeated, nor will the history of Europe. The history of the Czechs and of Europe is a pair of sketches from the pen of mankind's fateful inexperience, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.

Porque o homem pensa e a verdade escapa-lhe. Porque quanto mais os homens pensam, mais o pensamento de um se afasta do outro. E, finalmente, porque o homem nunca é aquilo que pensa ser.

When the north pole comes so close as to touch the south pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall.