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Quotes About Existence

Si uno se pone a pensar sobre ello, la meta última de la vida humana es algo que carece de importancia, es como un enjambre de abejas. Si uno lo deja estar acabada lamentándolo, pero si lo coges los insectos te picarán, por lo que es preferible dejarlo estar y observarlo sin tocarlo.
~ Gao Xingjian
I believe in science but I also believe in fate.
~ Gao Xingjian
Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.
~ Gao Xingjian
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
~ Gao Xingjian
THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE IS THE HUMAN RACE
~ Gardner Dozois
Did one have to be of woman born to be real? No. No. No. His kind of reality was a sufficient reality. He had no need to be ashamed of it. And, understanding that, he understood that Gioia did not need to grow old and die.
~ Gardner R. Dozois
I believe in God, not for God's sake, but for my sake.
~ Gareth Stedman Jones
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
~ Garrison Keillor
Time and death sleep side by side.
~ Garth Nix
Why, Yrael?" it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. "Why?" "Life," said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. "Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
~ Garth Nix
We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.
~ Garth Stein
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes of books that can be closed and put on the shelf or left behind at a bed and breakfast; they clench their eyes shut, so they will see no evil. But trust me when I tell you that the zebra is real. Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.
~ Garth Stein
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
~ Garth Stein
Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I want to live. To feel the joy of life, to separate oneself from burden, the angst, the anguish that we encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
~ Garth Stein
La soledad es algo que sólo existe en la mente, no fuera de ella, y, que, como un virus, es incapaz de sobrevivir sin un anfitrión que lo acoja.
~ Garth Stein
What can I do but force myself to remember? Try to imprint what I know on my soul, a thing that has no surface, no sides, no pages, no form of any kind. Carry it so deeply in the pockets of my existence that when I open my eyes and look down at my new hands with their thumbs that are able to close tightly around their fingers, I will already know. I will already see.
~ Garth Stein
To live everyday as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.
~ Garth Stein
To remember is to leave the present.
~ Garth Stein
To live each day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful. I am. I am.
~ Garth Stein
Ingatan adalah waktu yang melipat diri. Mengingat berarti memisahkan diri dari saat ini.
~ Garth Stein
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life. The party was festive. Everyone was happy, and those who were not happy pretended
~ Garth Stein
We are all connected. The living to the non-living, as the non-living to the living. All things in all directions in all times. It is only in the physical dimension that we have limitations. (The membrane between us is thinner than you think.)
~ Garth Stein