Quotes About Existence

Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers.

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop world And yet —

Before I arrived, who were the people living here? Only violets remain.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers

Non scordare: noi camminiamo sopra l'inferno, guardando i fiori.

Mondo di sofferenza: eppure i ciliegi sono in fiore!

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home.

Man's being is the night and the night is man's being.

When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet...When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world...

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.

The human soul is very much older than the human mind.

Ik zat eraan te denken dat ik nooit zou geloven dat dit leven met zijn liefde, streven naar waarheid en geluk, zijn weerlichten en verre ruisen van water in deze nacht zinloos en redeloos was, wie dat ook mocht beweren. Ieder van ons moet – alom en altijd, en tot aan het einde van zijn dagen – strijden voor de verankering van dit leven. == 1946

Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundos; mentalmente toda una vida.

Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundo; mentalmente toda una vida.

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

There were more recent markings as well-initials scratched over the pictographs, some with dates. people were always wanting to announce their existence to the world in a way that would surpass the ages, creating some sort of immortality. For all Karigan knew, the more ancient carvings were just another incarnation of such an urge.

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were, there'd be no opportunity for faith, and then it would be a very dull existence.

SUCH A THIN VEIL separated the past from the present; they existed simultaneously in the human heart.

God is not a statistical truth, hence it is just as stupid to try to prove the existence of God as to deny him. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II

What most people overlook or seem unable to understand is the fact that I regard the psyche as real.

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life; it is real only when it is known.

Man's task is…to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.