Quotes About Existence

All this happened, more or less.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.

Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

To create a life is to create a life out of the materials that history has given you.

A world without you is unknown to me. I don't even know if it exists.

Tu cumpleaños es el diecisiete de diciembre. —Y el tuyo es el veinticuatro de diciembre. —Es decir que, desde que nací, no ha habido un solo segundo en que tú no hayas estado en este mundo.

Cuando piensas que el futuro no es posible, es sorprendente lo puro que te vuelves, pero, al encontrarte vivo, renacen los deseos.

Crees que la duración del tiempo es un problema?-dijo ella en tono adulto-. El tiempo que he estado contigo ha sido corto, pero muy, muy feliz. Tan feliz que no podía serlo más. Seguro que he sido más feliz que nadie en este mundo. Incluso en estos momentos... Con eso basta. Una vez hablamos de eso, ¿te acuerdas? De que lo que hay, aquí y ahora, seguirá existiendo eternamente.

La muerte era algo que te llegaba al final, tras haber vivido unas decenas de años y haber ido envejeciendo poco a poco. Un largo camino blanco que se extendía en línea recta hasta desaparecer en la distancia en medio de una luz cegadora. Hay quien llama a esto "la nada", pero nadie la ha visto. La muerte era eso.

Un día hablamos del paraíso, ¿no? Tú dijiste que no creías ni en el otro mundo ni en el paraíso, ¿te acuerdas? -Sí, me acuerdo. -Si la muerte tiene algún sentido, ¿no crees que es incongruente negar la existencia del otro mundo y del paraíso? -¿Por qué? -Porque al morir todo acaba, ¿no? Y si no existe un después, es imposible que la muerte tenga sentido...

A veces, ni yo mismo sé si algo es real o si lo he soñado. Si en el pasado eso ha ocurrido de verdad o no. Me pasa incluso con personas a las que conocía muy bien. Cuando hace muchos años que han muerto, acaba dándome la sensación de que jamás han estado en este mundo.

Creo que lo que tenemos en el presente lo comprende todo –dijo ella al final, escogiendo cuidadosamente las palabras–. Ahí esta todo, no falta nada. Por lo tanto, no hay ninguna necesidad de pedir lo que nos falta a Dios ni de buscarlo en el otro mundo o en el paraíso. Porque ya existe.

The focus on the present reality of heaven and hell does not, in some way, raise the question of their existence. Far from it. The present realities of love and hate are proof that heaven and hell are real—so real, in fact, that their ways of life bleed into ours.

Should we die, the mechanics of life would go on without us, and that is what people feel most terribly disturbed by,' Korin interrupted himself, bowed his head, thought for a while, then pulled an agonized expression and started slowly swiveling his head, 'though it is only the very fact that it goes on that enables us properly to understand that there is no mechanism.

because he came here on the wrong day, because he was born in the wrong time, because he had been born, it was all wrong from the very beginning, he should have known, should have sensed, that today was not the day to begin anything, nor was tomorrow, there were no days before him now, as there had never even been any, just as there was not and never would be a day...

at this point, we must refocus our attention on this, as fear is what defines human existence, ...you will see that fear is the deepest element that can be grasped in this organic and inorganic world, and there's nothing else other than fear, because nothing else bears within it such dreadful strength

Se gandi iar la cotet si la porci, intrucat simti ca la fel cum cei care nu banuiesc ca din providenta ce pluteste deasupra zilelor noastre o sa ramana doar lumina de pe cutitul cu care se injunghie porcul, tot asa nici noi nu banuim nimic, si nici n-o sa aflam vreodata ceva despre acest infricosator adio.

Cele doua ceasuri arata, concomitent, doua forme diferite de timp, desi pe ambele destul de inexact. Al nostru intarzie peste masura, iar cel de acolo de afara... nu masoara timpul, ci eternitatea aservirii, iar cu treaba asta avem de-a face cat are de-a face creanga cu ploaia: suntem neputinciosi.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.