Quotes About Existence

Man should have an intuition of this far-reaching cosmic purpose and then, if he takes care to see that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things, the difficulties of earthly existence will not destroy his peace of mind.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature, and among them man is but one — perhaps the most miserable of all, because he is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?"

Nature is now. Humans are a tangled mess of past, present, and future.

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

And after all, what did it matter? Everybody died anyway, the good and the bad, the efficients and the weaklings, those that loved to live and those that scorned to live. They passed. Everything passed.

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself—one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

They had seen life, and done deeds, and lived romances, but they did not know it.

Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet

El universo ha sido aniquilado, conmocionado hasta su destrucción; pero el hombre sigue siendo el mismo...

but as he had no knowledge of the wide world outside, he was never oppressed by the narrow confines of his existence.

he had lived the existence of a sated aristocrat;

Already the zest of combat, which of old had been so keen and lasting, had died down, and he discovered that he was self-analytical, too much so to live, single heart and single hand, so primitive an existence.

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. (from Who's Who in Hell)

Estaban vivos a medias, o quizá menos.

this finger is not I.  Cut it off.  I live.  The body is mutilated.  I am not mutilated.  The spirit that is I is whole.

An' when you're dead, you'll rot the same as me, an' what's it matter how you live? - eh? Tell me that what's it matter in the long run?

But, - and there it is, - we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move. If it were not for this, life would be dead. It is because of this life that is in you that you dream of your immortality. The life that is in you is alive and wants to go on being alive forever. Bah! An eternity of piggishness!

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist

Kimdi, neydi, Martin asla öÄŸrenemedi. GeçmiÅŸi olmayan; geleceÄŸi önündeki mezardan, bugünüyse içindeki canh?raÅŸ hayat ateÅŸinden ibaret bir adamd?.

Quanto a me, non mi preoccupo mai di sapere se abbia ragione o no. Questo non ha importanza alcuna: l'uomo non può mai giungere all'ultima verità.

we want to live and move, though we have no reason to, because it happens that it is the nature of life to live and move, to want to live and move.

Un fantasma è l'anima d'un morto che non sa d'essere morto.