Quotes About Existence

porque en el mundo, (...) todos los que viven sueÑan.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Qué es la vida? Un frenesí. ¿Qué es la vida? Una ilusión, una sombra, una ficción; y el mayor bien es pequeño; que toda la vida es sueño, y los sueños, sueños son.

A noi fa piacere che uomini come Beecham esistano: essi incarnano tutto ciò che vi è di oscuro nel nostro mondo, nella nostra società. Ma le cose che hanno fatto di Beecham un mostro? Bè, quelle le tolleriamo, anzi, ne godiamo...

The fact that you cannot understand it does not mean that it doesn't exist.

What is born at midnight, in the eeriest hours of God's presence, can beget our entire reason to be.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth truth being defined as that which exists.

Oh, I'm a breather, I'm a respirateur, isn't that enough?" He asked, "Why do people have to work? Why do people think they have to work?" He

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be connected, if I am at all fundamentally right in what I am saying, then thinking in terms of stories must be shared by all mind or minds, whether ours or those of red wood forests and sea anemones... -Vít Pokorný

Whatever the story means in the story which I told you, the fact of thinking in terms of stories does not isolate human beings as something separate from the starfish and the sea anemones, the coconut palms and the primroses. Rather, if the world be connected, if I am at all fundamentally right in what I am saying, then thinking in terms of stories must be shared by all mind or minds, whether ours or those of red wood forests and sea anemones. Credit Line: Vít Pokorný

I want to live a real life. I don't want to dream any longer.

For instance, here is a puzzle that many minds have pondered: If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it,does it still make a sound?

If what we are called is not important, why bother with a name at all?

So maybe I wasn't that high profile when I was a student here," I said. "But am I really more interesting dead than alive?" "You don't seriously expect me to answer that, do you?" Elaine said.

It fascinated him that the human will to survive was so strong that despite the complete absence of any quality of life, one still chose to go on, day after day, year after year. Was there any cause for rejoicing left in a life like Anders Nilsson's? Did he ever experience the emotions that made life worth living: joy, anticipation, happiness, elation? Or was everything merely a stop on the way to the next shot of alcohol?

Death was a state of being, just like life. Why should one be better than the other?

person consists of energies, and energy never disappears; it just

Men... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

La vida la hemos olvidado. Para nosotros no existen ya más horizonte que los que hemos preferido elegir, lo cual viene a ser una ventaja, sin duda alguna. El mundo empieza y acaba a cuatro metros de nosotros mismos, alrededor de nuestra cama, y las gentes que gozan de los placeres de la existencia, los hombres y las mujeres que ríen y bailan desafortunadamente, que se aman y se besan sin tiento y sin medida, no son nuestros hermanos.

La vida no es sólo el corazón que late. Es también el pensamiento flotando sobre el corazón que ha dejado de latir.

How strange that they arrive at all, nights on planet earth.

Dawn 5am: the frogs ask what is it, what is it? It is what it is.

Just that. It is hard in the radiance of this world to live but we live.

Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.