Quotes About Existence

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately linked with the discovery of the sacred.

Experience of the sacred is inherent in man's mode of being in the world.

The sacred does not necessarily imply belief in God or gods or spirits … it is the experience of a reality and the source of an awareness of existing in the world.

Hacerse hombre significa ser religioso

For me, the sacred is always the revelation of the real, an encounter with that which saves us by giving meaning to our existence.

Dac? miracolul este ceva irecognoscibil, adic? un fapt dup? toate aparenÈ›ele ordinar – atunci toate faptele ordinare cap?t? o maxim? importan??, c?ci în oricare din ele poate fi o intervenÈ›ie iraÈ›ional?, divin?. Întâmplarea poate ajunge atunci c?l?uza existenÈ›ei noastre.

Infernul e sus, a?a cum ?ti?i. Raiul e ?i mai sus, dar el nu m? intereseaz?.

Creation is the only answer one can give to fate, to the 'terror of history.

Tr?ie?te el, ca om, ca fiin?? total? - ?i nu se las? tr?it de ?esuturile lui, de glandele lui, de automatismele lui, ca noi to?i, ce?tilal?i...

Every eschatology returns to, continues and revalorizes the idea that the Creation, supremely the divine work, is alone capable of renewing and sanctifying human existence.

Sacredness is, above all, real.

Nothing happens in my life. Nothing has to happen, she said, for it to be life.

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery? This makes her feel compassion toward the people who invented the concept of "telling time." How hopeful, she says. How beautifully futile. How perfectly human.

That to truly know happiness is to know the fleeting nature of everything, joy, pain, safety and happiness itself.

forgiven for being alive, for being in the world. For the arrogance and the futility of remaining alive, the ridiculousness of it, the stench of it, the unreasonableness of it. That's your feeling, she added, your internal logic. You've just explained that to me.

She says isn't it funny how every second, every minute, every day, month, year, is accounted for, capable of being named—when time, or life, is so unwieldy, so intangible and slippery?

To be alive means full body contact with the absurd. Still, we can be happy. Even poor old Sisyphus could figure that much out. And that's saying something. You might say that God is an absurd concept but faith in God's goodness. . .I find joy in that. I find it inspiring.

I potser un no triga gaire a creure's que en realitat no existeix, va fer ella. O que la seva existència corpòria és una aberració.

Va dir que si hagués estat en aquell prat amb mi, m'hauria ajudat a aconseguir aquella sensació d'haver obtingut d'una manera o altra el perdó. Però el perdó de què en concret?, li vaig preguntar jo. D'haver robat peres?, d'haver dibuixat noies despullades? No, no, va fer ella, el perdó de ser viu, de ser al món.

Stuff was happening. Even in Half-a-Life. Little things, but it all added up to something big. To our lives. It was happening all along. These were our lives. This was it. My mom was hanging onto the lives, the recorded lives, of these women. We might escape, but what if we didn't? What if we lived in Half-a-Life all our lives, poor, lonely, proud, happy? If we did, we did. These were our lives. If we couldn't escape them, we'd have to live them.

someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it.

De l'única cosa de què podem estar segurs és que el temps existeix, sí o no? Perquè va desapareixent. I una cosa que no existeix no desapareix.

Li vaig preguntar què en traurien, ella i la resta de dones, de les actes, si cap no sabia llegir? (I ella, per la seva banda, em podia haver preguntat: Què en traiem de viure si no som al món?)

Veig que el món s'enrotlla sobre si mateix, com onades sense mar ni riba que les contingui.