Quotes About Existence

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

The perpetual hesitation of the neurotic to launch out into life is readily explained by his desire to stand aside so as not to get involved in the dangerous struggle for existence. But anyone who refuses to experience life must stifle his desire to live – in other words, he must commit partial suicide.

By not being aware of having a shadow, you declare a part of your personality to be non-existent. Then it enters the kingdom of the non-existent, which swells up and takes on enormous proportions…If you get rid of qualities you don't like by denying them, you become more and more unaware of what you are, you declare yourself more and more non-existent, and your devils will grow fatter and fatter.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

The core of an individual is the mystery of life, which dies when it is 'grasped'. That is also why symbols want to keep their secrets.

Man's estrangement from the mythical realm and the subsequent shrinking of his existence to the mere factual—that is the major cause of mental illness.

You should be he himself--not Christians, but Christ.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

We're all worth it, man," River said with a beatific smile. "We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

It is easy to forget that you live in the sky - not beneath it, but within it. Our atmosphere is an enormous ocean, and you inhabit it. This ocean is made up of the gases of air rather than liquid water, but it is as much of an ocean as the Atlantic or the Pacific. You may think of yourself as living on the ground, but all that means is that you are a creature of the ocean bed. You still inhabit the atmosphere like a sea creature does the water.

Dac? lumea ar fi fost perfect?, atunci nici eu nu a? fi existat

It's new territory, and I'm learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.

You're where time comes from.

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.