Quotes About Existence

But mostly there was little to report, just the day-to-day goings-on of countless people working and living and aging and falling in and out of love, as is the case everywhere, and so not deemed worthy of headline billing or thought to be of much interest to anyone but those directly involved.

O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.

For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the introduction to some epic science-fiction film, then shining brightly on that list would be the fact that we exist in a financial universe that is subject to massive gravitational pulls from states. States tug at us. States bend us. And, tirelessly, states seek to determine our orbits.

the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living as a human being, reminding oneself of what one was, and so it mattered, and if necessary was worth a fight.

our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed

in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

they felt the dead daily, hourly, as they lived their lives, and their feeling of the dead was important to them, an important part of what made up their particular way of living, and not to be hidden from, for it could not be hidden from, it could not be hidden from at all.

one is to look out at the universe and see yourself, the other is to look within yourself and see the universe.

but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.

Religion, Pat had said to me and then I had repeated it to Charlotte, was for people who needed to believe that death was better than life.

Ce mort-vivant a un corps qui est son propre corps. Il n'est ni mort, ni vivant mais vivant dans la mort. Il est une anomalie, un paria parmi les monstres.

There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

Philosophy is a hallow bone with no flesh on it

Pas de doute, avec ce jour, j'ai vécu un de plus que je n'aurais dû

Biz pek ÅŸaÅŸk?n varl?klar?z: Filanca hayat?n? iÅŸsiz güçsüz geçirdi, deriz; bugün hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?m, deriz. -Bir ÅŸey yapmad?m da ne demek? YaÅŸad?n?z ya!

All beings share a common world, but each creature has its own way of perceiving this world.

YaÅŸamak için topra??m?z olmayabilir ama ölmek için toprak bulunur nas?l olsa

There is nothing certain but uncertainty, and nothing more miserable and arrogant than man.

There is nothing so beautiful and legitimate as to play the man well and properly, no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally; and the most barbarous of our maladies is to despise our being.

But I once had a friend who was a cat.' 'Cats are for catching rats.' 'You say that because you think like a farmer with a store of grain to protect. But I tell you cats are for cats, just as Dinas said the stars are stars. Their purpose is simply to be, Pelemos. Cats and stars don't belong to us.

It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.