Quotes About Existence

igual que en las células aisladas, el carácter de nuestra existencia se ve determinado no por nuestros genes, sino por nuestra respuesta a las señales ambientales que impulsan la vida.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.

To doubt is to think, and thought is the only thing in the universe whose existence cannot be denied, because to deny is to think.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Our perception of what is physical us an illusion. There's nothing physical at all, it's all energy.

When we are stone will the world recall us?

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Is there anybody alive out there?

There is no evidence of the soul except in its sudden absence. A nothingness enters, taking place where something was before.

We are one sour breath of night and day, then dirt and stars, but we're holding the new morning.

Now, some guys' five minutes are worth other guys' fifty years, and while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales through the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living. Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled and here.

Reality's a horde of mice, nibbling away in the basement of your dreams.…

Mankind had always been surrounded by the miraculous. Nothing much had ever come of it.

Mankind's a dead issue now, cousin. There are no more souls. Only states of mind.

But to measure myself against life and death, as if I could go on forever.… There's no dignity in that. What are we to life? We're only sparks.

To the truly old, time was as thin as air, a keening and destructive wind that erased their pasts and attacked their memories.

Someday the Sun will explode, and what about our journalism and poetry then? Well, so what? To hell with our exploding Sun. We have to do what we can do in the time we can act.

To have found meaning in life is thus the only certain antidote to the deliberate seeking of death. But at the same time, in a strange dialectical way, it is death that endows life with its deepest, most unique meaning.

If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Freud's prescription is that only by struggling courageously against what seem like overwhelming odds can man succeed in wringing meaning out of his existence.