Quotes About Existence

Não existe meio de verificar qual é a boa decisão, pois não existe termo de comparação. Tudo é vivido pela primeira vez e sem preparação. Como se um ator entrasse em cena sem nunca ter ensaiado. Mas o que pode valer a vida, se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

It's a great consolation to think that when we've long been in the grave our noses will still be strolling the earth.

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

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

We live in two different dimensions, you and I.

The dispute between those who believe that the world was created by God and those who think it came into being of its own accord deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation.

Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam

You were like flames that must dance and leap to exist at all.

Sería tan sencillo encontrar la calma en el mundo de la imaginación. Pero yo siempre he tratado de vivir en los dos mundos al mismo tiempo y no abandonar uno de ellos por culpa del otro.

Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

Si el hombre sólo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto.

Le roman n'est pas une confession de l'auteur, mais une exploration de ce qu'est la vie humaine dans le piège qu'est devenu le monde.

Como cada um de nós, Klima só atribuía realidade ao que penetrava na sua vida por dentro, progressivamente, organicamente, enquanto o que vinha do exterior, bruscamente e fortuitamente, era por ele vivido como uma invasão do irreal. Mas, ai de nós, nada é mais real do que este irreal).

Was aber kann das Leben wert sein, wenn die erste Probe für das Leben schon das Leben selber ist? Aus diesem Grunde gleicht das Leben immer einer Skizze. Auch Skizze ist nicht das richtige Wort, weil Skizze immer ein Entwurf zu etwas ist, die Vorbereitung eines Bildes, während die Skizze unseres Lebens eine Skizze von nichts ist, ein Entwurf ohne Bild.

L'avenir n'est qu'un vide indifférent qui n'intéresse personne, mais le passé est plein de vie et son visage irrite, révolte, blesse au point que nous voulons le détruire ou le repeindre.

Mission, Tereza, c'est de la foutaise. Je n'ai pas de mission. Personne n'a de mission. Et c'est un énorme soulagement de s'apercevoir qu'on est libre, qu'on n'a pas de mission.

Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

Hace mucho tiempo, el hombre oía extrañado el sonido de un golpeteo dentro de su pecho y no tenía idea de su origen. El cuerpo era una jaula y dentro de ella había algo que miraba, escuchaba, temía, pensaba y se extrañaba; ese algo, ese resto que quedaba al sustraerle el cuerpo, ese algo era el alma. La cara no es más que una especie de tablero de instrumentos en el que desembocan todos los mecanismos del cuerpo.

Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact.

Ä°ÅŸte insanoÄŸlunun bütün bahts?zl??? burada yat?yor. Ä°nsan zaman? bir döngü izlemiyor; onun yerine dümdüz bir çizgide ileriye doÄŸru gidiyor. Ä°nsan bu yüzden mutlu olam?yor; mutluluk yinelenmeye duyulan özlemdir.

human lifetime is 80 years long on average. A person imagines and organizes his life with that span in mind. What I have just said everyone knows, but only rarely do we realize that the number of years granted us is not merely a quantitative fact, an external feature (like nose length or eye color), but is part of the very definition of the human.

Sin saberlo, el hombre compone su vida de acuerdo con las leyes de la belleza aun en los momentos de más profunda desesperación.