Quotes About Existence

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.

Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Man is the only animal that can be bored.

The only unhappiness is a life of boredom.

It is better to be happy for the moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there.

The corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

What is actual is actual only for one time, and only for one place.

Impermanence is the law of the universe.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.