Quotes About Existence

Çarenivîsa mirov ev e; Ku di seranserî temenê xwe da rencê bikiÅŸîne Da ku bikare bijî, Bijî Û bijî Heta ku bikare bimire!

What I wanted was a cave in Colorado with three-years' worth of foodstuffs and drink. I'd wipe my ass with sand. Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

sometimes it does not take a man or a woman, only something alive

as the junkies junk as the alkies drink as the whores whore as the killers kill the albatross blinks its eyes the weather stays mostly the same.

We are simply a part of the machinery of the moment.

Humanity, you never had it from the beginning

Když chce nÄ›kdo zabít Boha, znamená to, že ho chci zabít i já?

To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day … was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

naturally, we are all caught in downmoods, it's a matter of chemical imbalance and an existence which, at times, seems to forbid any real chance at happiness.

Tinha o cartão Gold Visa. Estava vivo. Talvez. Começava até a me sentir como Nick Belane. Cantalorei um trechinho de Coats. O Inferno era o que a gente fazia dele. (pág. 16)

I am waiting to live, waiting to die.

downers some people grind away making their unhappiness the ultimate factor of their existence until finally they are just automatically unhappy, their suspicious upset snarling selves grinding on and at and for and through their only relief being to meet another unhappy person or to create one.

The flies are angry bits of life; why are they so angry? it seems they want more, it seems almost as if they are angry that they are flies; it is not my fault; I sit in the room with them and they taunt me with their agony; it is as if they were loose chunks of soul left out of somewhere;

there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D. H. Lawrence had known that.

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

I blend into Time.

Who was Col. Sussex? Just some guy who had to shit like the rest of us.

but the man with the whip was a part of the whole no matter how seemingly useless and stupid and once great thoughts often with time become useless and stupid. but Schopenhauer's rage was so beautiful so well placed that I laughed out loud then put him down next to Nietzsche who was also all too human.

You only live once, right? Well, except for Lazarus. Poor sucker, he had to die twice.

Por la mañana era de día y yo seguía vivo. Quizás escriba una novela, pensé. Y eso hice.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. (...) Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Hay veces que un hombre tiene que luchar tanto por la vida que ni tiempo tiene de vivirla.

agony can kill or agony can sustain life but peace is always horrifying