Quotes About Existence

La vida transcurre a velocidades y ritmos disímiles. Por largos periodos avanza con lentitud y de súbito, en lapsos cortísimos, suceden eventos frenéticos y radicales que la trastornan hasta dejarla irreconocible. Cómo y por qué entra uno a esos ríos caóticos y furiosos es un misterio. Nos quejamos de la grisura de la cotidianeidad, pero con frecuencia es nuestra tabla de salvación. Una existencia sin orden termina por apabullarnos.

El nos habita pese a nosotros

Ser o no ser. Ser, querido Shakespeare. Siempre ser.

But I can't be alone, can I? Of course not; I'm not that special. Anomalies like me exist all around the world. So when does an anomaly quit being an anomaly and start being just the way things happen to be? What if you and I are not the last of our kinds, but one of the first? The first of better creatures in a better wold? We can hope, can't we? That we're not of the past, but the future?

We're all made of stardust Mr. Strickland. Oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and calcium. If some of us get our way and our Countries fire off their warheads, then we shall return to stardust. All of us. And what color will our stars be then? That is the question. A question you might ask yourself.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…

We don't discover, we don't learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten…

Los fantasmas existen. Es todo lo que sé. Se desvanecen, junto con el pasado, como la niebla en plena luz del día… a su paso, dejan enseñanzas simbólicas. Certezas simbólicas.

unable to perceive the shape of you, i find you all around me

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness … The

El laberinto del fauno era una gran prueba de que la fantasía puede ser a su vez poética y política, y eso es una herramienta perfecta para comprender la realidad fantástica de nuestra existencia.

All art is portraiture and all art is political: those are the things that you cannot avoid. When someone sees you in your entirety for who you are, that's the greatest act of love, because it's granting you existence. And the rarest act of love is, like cinema, to see.

This world is a motherfucker, isn't it?" Angel nodded and said, "But it's the only one we have." Gus

Uno tiene que estar en algún lado, si tan sólo se pudiera ser sin estar entonces podría ser lo que se dice un alma solitaria.

Una mujer se acercó a donde yo estaba y me jaló del brazo conduciéndome hasta el fondo del bar: allí me señaló una inscripción en el muro que decía: ¨Antes de nacer estábamos exactamente aquí.¨

Qué puede importar la verdad cuando en el lado opuesto se concentra la vida?

hogar, país? Es posible que los seres humanos se den cuenta algún día de que todos estos valores son abstractos y que para vivir sólo necesitamos, en realidad, un lugar habitable".

There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos.

Dharma is precisely this 'discipline of ordered existence', a 'belief system that restrains and gives coherence to desires.

The Upanishads trace these problems of the self to our sense of 'Iness' or ahamkara (literally 'I-maker') which is our subjective sense of identity and which has its origin in our consciousness (aham). In classical Sankhya philosophy, the empirical world of the senses and the mind emerges from the evolution of the aham, and liberation from this empirical existence requires the negation of ahamkara.

There is a definite time, a definite term, for everything. Possibilities for everything exist only for a definite time. Gurdjieff

I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?

The world is a drama, staged in a dream

What should the yogi have to fear? Trees, plants, and all that is inside and outside, is He Himself