Quotes About Existence

Only in adulthood can any intelligent understanding of the meaning of one's existence in this world be gained from one's experiences in it.

It is part of my existence to be the parasite of metaphors, so easily am I carried away by the first simile that comes along. Having been carried away, I have to find my difficult way back, and slowly return to my senses.

Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.

For us old-age pensioners, autumn is on the whole a dangerous season. He who knows how difficult it is for us to achieve any stability at all, how difficult it is to avoid distraction or destruction by one's own hand, will understant tha autumn, its winds, disturbances, and atmospheric confusions, does not favour our existence, which is precarious anyway.

A valóság lényege az értelem. Aminek nincs értelme, az számunkra nem valóságos. A valóság minden darabja azáltal létezik, hogy részese valamiféle egyetemes értelemnek. A régi kozmogóniák ezt azzal a szentenciával fejezték ki, hogy "Kezdetben vala az Ige". Aminek nincs neve, az számunkra nem létezik. Valamit megnevezni annyit tesz, mint egyféle egyetemes értelem részévé tenni.

Thats all we should be, a squishy golem, an extremely articulate automaton, Without one thing- Spirit

Stephen... you know how, when a baby is first born, it just cries at the sheer horror of being alive?

And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.

Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies.

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

Birth and death we all move between these two unknowns.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is—as we are.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Buckminster Fuller

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.

This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Not everything that's broken is destroyed, even the universe exists only after splitting to pieces

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we got.