Quotes About Existence

People lived as they had always done; there was no break between past and present. All that had happened in the past had washed away; there was always only the present. It was as though, as a result of some disturbance in the heavens, the early morning light was always receding into the darkness, and men lived in a perpetual dawn

We had become what the world outside had made us; we had to live in the world as it existed.

The world carried no witness to Mr Biswas's birth and early years.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Without science, there would be no you; without you, the future would offer a much narrower prospect.

Valmiki the Poet held all the moving world inside a water drop in his hand. The gods and saints from heaven looked down on Lanka, And Valmiki looked down at the gods in the morning of Time.

Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?

Sofya now understood the difference between life and existence: her life had come to an end, but her existence could drag on indefinitely. And however wretched and miserable this existence was, the thought of violent death still filled her with horror.

Such is time: everything passes, it alone remains; everything remains, it alone passes. And how swiftly and noiselessly it passes. Only yesterday you were sure of yourself, strong and cheerful, a son of the time. But now another time has come – and you don't even know it.

What does a woman who has lost her children care about a philosopher's definitions of good and evil? But what if life itself is evil?

Así es el tiempo: todo pasa, sólo él permanece. Todo permanece, sólo el tiempo pasa. ¡Qué ligero se va, sin hacer ruido! Ayer mismo todavía confiabas en ti, alegre, rebosante de fuerzas, hijo del tiempo. Y hoy ha llegado un nuevo tiempo, pero tú, tú no te has dado cuenta.

The whole city seemed to be pinned down, fascinated by the glassy stare of the Lubyanka. Krymov had thought about various people he knew. Their distance from him was something that couldn't even be measured in space -they existed in another dimension. No power on earth or in heaven could bridge this abyss, an abyss as profound as death itself. But these people weren't yet lying under a nailed-down coffin-lid – they were here beside him, alive and breathing, thinking, weeping.

Each wave breaking against the cliff would believe it was dying for the good of the sea; it would never occur to it that, like thousands of waves before and after, it had only been brought into being by the wind.

life can be defined as freedom. Life is freedom. Freedom is the fundamental principle of life. That is the boundary – between freedom and slavery, between inanimate matter and life.

And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths, little carts with containers of fizzy water - this man gave a deep sigh, convinced now that life had gone on in his absence, that life had continued.

Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.

Todo lo que vive es irrepetible. Es inconcebible que dos seres humanos, dos arbustos de rosa silvestre sean idénticos... La vida se extingue allí donde existe el empeño de borrar las diferencias y las particularidades por medio de la violencia.

El sol no se preocupa del viento, de las nubes, de las tormentas en el mar, del rumor de las hojas; pero en su movimiento uniforme, sabe que todo en la tierra existe gracias a él.

In reality, myth was that which took the place of analysis in former times. … It showed that there was the universe, but one knew that there was also something else. One knew that something stronger than the social existed.

That is to say that at the heart of existence is that double negation, "one can not, not.

Mors aurem vellens, 'Vivite,' ait, 'venio.

Estás perdido Altazor Solo en medio del universo Solo como una nota que florece en las alturas del vacío No hay bien no hay mal ni verdad ni orden ni belleza ¿En dónde estás Altazor?

That day will come. But at the moment it is this day that has to be lived.