Quotes About Existence

If you don't want to die, you should have never been born

Heroes made lousy partners in business and in love. The courage to face death was not always a virtue. It could be the ultimate cop-out. If she died in a noble cause, she didn't have to face the boredom of day-to-day existence.

He cries, "Please! I don't want to die." I lean over. My hair smothers him. "Then you should never have been born," I say.

Life could only be lived to the full by the instinctive or unconscious denial of death, otherwise nothing would ever be achieved

Nicholai bir y?l boyunca olup bitenin fark?na varmad?. Günlük yaÅŸam? bir sürü küçük olaylarla noktalan?p ölçülüyor, cezaevi d???ndaki yaÅŸamla da hiçbir ilgisi kalmam?? bulunuyordu. Hiçbir zaman can? s?k?lmam??t?. Fizik kurallar?na ters görünen bir ilke vard? çünkü. Zaman ancak, içi boÅŸ olduÄŸu zaman a??rd?.

Everything was relative, every thing and being flowed into every other thing and being, and there were way more than three dimensions. Everything, even the things that seemed to stay still, was moving.

There are days that should never be. And then, there are days that, oh, if only they could go on forever!

Hanara did not yet feel he'd reached long-life. It was a state, slaves said, where you felt satisfied you have lived long enough. Where you didn't feel cheated if you died. You might not have had an easy life, or a happy one, but you'd had your measure. Or you had made a difference to the world, even a small one, because you had existed.

Trudy, there is no such thing as time. Dying is like walking from the living room into the dining room, there are no beginnings or endings.

I dared, for the first and last time in my life, to express a theological conclusion: But how can a necessary being exist totally polluted with the possible? What difference is there, then, between God and primogenial chaos? Isn't affirming God's absolute omnipotence and His absolute freedom with regard to His own choices tantamount to demonstrating that God does not exist?

But if there is no cosmic Plan? What a mockery, to live in exile when no one sent you there. Exile from a place, moreover, that does not exist.

INTERVIEWER Do you believe in God? ECO Why does one love a certain person one day and discover the next day that the love is gone? Feelings, alas, disappear without justification, and often without a trace. INTERVIEWER If you don't believe in God, then why have you written at such great length about religion? ECO Because I do believe in religion. Human beings are religious animals, and such a characteristic feature of human behavior cannot be ignored or dismissed.

Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

What does the philosopher say? Odi ergo sum. I hate therefore I am.

Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.

The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

Öyle bir an geliyor ki,insan?n içinde bir ÅŸeyler k?r?l?yor;ne enerji ne istek kal?yor. YaÅŸamak gerekir diyorlar ama yaÅŸamak son vadede intihara sürükleyen bir sorun

What am I?...I say so inasmuch as I am the memory of all my past moments, the sum of everything I remember. If I say I in the sense of that something that is here at this moment and is not the mainmast or the coral, then I am the sum of what I feel now. But what is what I feel now? It is the sum of those relations between presumed indivisibles that have been arranged in that system of relations in that special order that is my body.

Nothing can shake my belief that this world is the fruit of a dark god whose shadow I extend.

And in that moment I experience a revelation. I realize now that it was a painful sense that the world is purposeless, the lazy fruit of a misunderstanding, but in that moment I was able to translate what I felt only as: God does not exist.

Ma gavte la nata.

Nebulat ergo cogito.

So you truly do not believe in God? I find no reason to, in nature... If the idea of God is unknown in the state of nature, it must then be a human invention.