Quotes About Existence

If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

Avoidance of boredom is the only worthy mode of action. Life otherwise is not worth living.)

he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

It is a very recent disease to mistake the unobserved for the nonexistent; but some are plagued with the worse disease of mistaking the unobserved for the unobservable.

Not everything that happens happens for a reason, but everything that survives survives for a reason.

Now, in addition to these traits, he defaults to thinking that what he doesn't see is not there, or what he does not understand does not exist. At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

Atheism or materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn, I won't.

How was your year?" brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

El hecho de añadir a causa de hace que el hecho parezca más verosímil, y mucho más probable. El cáncer producido por el tabaco parece más probable que el cáncer sin una causa determinada; una causa indeterminada significa la inexistencia de una causa.

The simple one-way relationship which so entrances our politicians and commentators—education spending in, economic growth out—simply doesn't exist

My being here is a consequential low-probability occurrence, and I tend to forget it.

At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

mistaking what we don't see for the nonexistent, a sibling to mistaking absence of evidence for evidence of absence.

Stálin não poderia ter existido em um município".

Quando avevo pensato a me stessa in solitudine, mi ero trovata a volte troppo strana e sola per avere qualche diritto di vivere.

And Ippolito too, in his own way, had been a real person, even though he had come to that insect-like end.

And no one knew what was in store for the dead, he said, perhaps nothing at all but perhaps, on the other hand, there was something, probably a great boredom, he said, a deathly boredom.

Il romanzo è fra le cose del mondo che sono insieme inutili e necessarie.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short

You can't have living without dying.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short.