Quotes About Existence

In his mind, the business of existence was about minimizing consequences. The plague had raised the stakes, but he had been in training for this his whole life.

Since the night she was kidnapped she had been appraised and reappraised, each day waking upon the pan of a new scale. Know your value and you know your place in the order. To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible. It

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

Her isim mal, nefes alan sermayeydi; etten ve kemikten kâr.

Know your value and you know your place in the order. To escape the boundary of the plantation was to escape the fundamental principles of your existence: impossible.

the reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude

He was aware of his body as a shell. Fragile, thin as excuses. A vessel containing the dust of his essential him-ness which would be lost when the vessel failed. Well, that was the way of the world. For a time he was fixed in his body, stuck and named and fixed in place, but one day that would not be the case. One day only his name would remain, on a tombstone or etched onto an urn, marking his dried bones or ashes.

Even angels are animals.

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

When you divide death by life you find a circle.

What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other.

All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.

The overexamined life... It's not worth living.

If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all?

The days hardened like loaves: he ate them without appetite.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

Wir stolpern dahin, tragen ein wenig Geräusch in die Stille und wirken in anderen fort.

Be grateful for the moment in Time.