Quotes About Existence

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

Live the beauty or your own reality.

Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round.

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. --Villa Incognito

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.

If love eats the donut, does time eat the hole?

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

Everything that's alvie was born, and everything that was born has got to die. There's no getting around it. It's the law of the universe. The universe does not have laws. It has habits. And habits can be broken.

Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.

There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon.

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death. Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it.

Birth, copulation, and death. Fine. In truth, however, there were at least two other things in which Amanda strongly believed. Namely: magic and freedom.

We must accept unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe—and go on about our tasks. . . .

Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of is and it.

He felt that since energy was the only permanent thing in the universe, it was the most (if not only) significant thing.

The underworld persists because society needs it, insists upon it, supports it (at the same time that it denies and persecutes it, of course).

The accumulation of material things is shallow and vain, but to have a genuine relationship with such things is to have a relationship with life and, by extension, a relationship with the divine.

Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the so-called 'living,' fear for the simple reason that we have not passed through them.

Humanity was a function of nature. It could not, therefore, live separately from nature except in a self-deceiving masquerade. It could not live in opposition to nature except in a schizophrenic crime. And it could not blind itself to the wonders of nature without mutating into something too monstrous to love. Yes

I am what I it. It is what is is.

the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment

I'm an outlaw not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.