Quotes About Existence

There is no snow, yet, to hold footprints, and in a moment, as his father disappears from sight, it is as if he never passed that way at all. Today it strikes Bird as unbearably sad, to pass by and leave no trace of your existence. To have no one remember you'd been there.

Mrs. Richardson, however, could not let Izzy be, and the feeling coalesced in all of them: Izzy pushing, her mother restraining, and after a time no one could remember how the dynamic had started, only that it had existed always.

the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered in her face was the baby she'd been and the child she'd become and the adult she would grow up to be, and you saw them all simultaneously, like a 3-D image. It

I HAVE MEASURED OUT MY LIFE WITH COFFEE SPOONS. DO I DARE TO EAT A PEACH? DO I DARE DISTURB THE UNIVERSE?

simply went on as if she'd never existed. As he stands there, he knows the photos

The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.

Çok zaman kaybettim. Çok zaman ve biraz da ümit. Ya?amak bu galiba...

being around animals, I am always reminded that the only real moment in life is now.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.

Ma la grande, la tremenda verità è questa: soffrire non serve a niente.

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Ne san?yorsun?Ay herkes için vard?r,yaÄŸmurda,hastal?klar da.Ä°nsan yeralt?nda da yaÅŸasa,sarayda da yaÅŸasa,kan her yerde k?rm?z?d?r.

Mi par di essere un'ombra tra le ombre degli alberi. Più mi scaldo a questo sole e mi nutro a questa terra, più mi pare di sciogliermi in stille e brusii, nella voce del lago, nei ringhi del bosco.

L'arte di vivere è l'arte di credere alle menzogne, il tremendo è che, non sapendo quid sit veritas , sappiamo però che cos'è la menzogna.

No se recuerdan los días, se recuerdan los momentos

Erano gli unici, i soldati, ad accorgersi che le donne esistevano ancora. Nella citùù disordinata e sempre all'erta, più nessuno osservava le donne di un tempo, nessuno le seguiva, nemmeno vestite da estate, nemmeno se ridevano. Anche in questo la guerra, io l'avevo prevista. Per me questo rischio era cessato da un pezzo. Se avevo ancora desideri, non avevo più illusioni.

Bir ÅŸeyden, onu görmezlikten gelerek deÄŸil, ancak onu yaÅŸayarak kurtulabiliriz.

Si faccia una vita interiore, di studio, di affetti, che non siano soltanto di "arrivare", ma di "essere" - e vedrà che la vita avrà un significato.

Religion consists of believing that everything that happens is extraordinarily important. It can never disappear from the world, precisely for this reason.

Names do not matter. They are only names that chanced to drift my way; if not those, there would have been others

Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego's display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as "spiritual" people.

And don't forget to enjoy simple stuff like...being alive, which in itself is amazing news. For me, personally, it means I'm not dead, and I'm a fan of that. Optimism can start small, ya know?

What does it mean to have to suffer so much if our lives are nothing more than the blink of an eye? … I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.