Quotes About Existence

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

It is impossible for me to remember how many days or weeks went by in this way. Time is round, and it rolls quickly.

The great difference between us is this: you believe you have found salvation, and believing this, you are saved; I believe that salvation doesn't exist, and believing this, I am saved.

My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.

We have but a single moment at our disposal. Let us transform that moment into eternity. No other form of immortality exists

By believing passionately in that which doesn't exist, you create it and that which has not been sufficiently desired is what we call the non existent -

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.

Sa fi jurat ca sufletul, e si el, un animal cu plamani si nari, ca are nevoie de mult oxigen si ca se inabusa in praf si printre prea numeroase rasuflari

There is only one essence, always the same. As yet, man has found no other means to elevate himself—none but the routing of matter and the submission of the individual to an end which transcends the individual, even though that end be chimerical. When the heart believes and loves, nothing chimerical exists; nothing exists but

On the way between nothingness and God, we dance and weep.

Time is not a field, to be measured in rods, nor a sea, to be measured in miles; it is a heart beat.

Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom.

Every morning when he opens his eyes and observes trees, the sea, stones, a bird, he cries with wide open mouth, "What a miracle this is! What is the meaning of trees, the sea, stones, a bird?

Zorba sighed. He lit a cigarette, took one or two puffs and then threw it away. My country, you say?… You believe all the rubbish your books tell you…? Well, I'm the one you should believe. So long as there are countries, man will stay like an animal, a ferocious animal… But I am delivered from all that, God be praised! It's finished for me! What about you?

Everything seems to have a soul – wood, stones, the wine we drink and the earth we tread on. Everything, do you hear me, absolutely everything.

I ask and ask again, beating on chaos: "Who plants us on this earth without asking our permission? Who uproots us from this earth without asking our permission?

I lack nothing, I tell you!" "Nothing?" I asked. "Not even heaven?" He lowered his head and was silent. But after a moment: "Heaven is too high for me. The earth is good, exceptionally good–and near me!" "Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.

there are those who aim at living the life of the entire universe - everything, men, animals, trees, stars, we are all one, we are all one substance involved in the same terrible struggle. What struggle?... Turning matter into spirit.