Quotes About Existence

El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuanto más vacío está. Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en su estación.

as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

And never forget that we exist so long as someone remembers us

A él le hubiere gustado saber que alguien le quería mantener vivo, que le recordaba. El solía decir que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.

the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

He'd lived his forty-seven years with enviable panache and intensity, maintaining that human beings foolishly allowed their existence to drift by as if they were going to live for ever: that was their undoing.

Life flies by, especially the bit that's worth living.

Vrijeme ne postoji, zato ga ne možemo gubiti.

Nous restons vivants tant que quelqu'un se souvient de nous

The territory of humans is life, said the doctor. Death does not belong to us

El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece.

Az ember azért hisz, amiért levegÅ't vesz: mert életben akar maradni.

Todo forma parte de algo que no podemos entender, pero que nos posee.

Leandro laughed to himself. 'The truth? You and I know such a thing doesn't exist. The truth is an agreement that allows innocent people not to have to cope with reality.

Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

De vegades, les coses més reals solament passen a la imaginació, Òscar -va dir ella-. Només recordem el que mai no ha passat.

Él solía decir que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.

Sempre dizia que os seres humanos deixavam a vida passar como se fossem viver para sempre e que isso era a sua perdição.

Podría pintar mil años -murmuró Salvat en su lecho de muerte- y no cambiaría un ápice la barbarie, la ignorancia y la bestialidad de los hombres. La belleza es un soplo contra el viento de la realidad.

Sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió. [...] No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte.

No se aprende nada importante en la vida, sólo se recuerda.

The territory of humans is life. Death does not belong to us.

if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.