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Quotes About Existence

Moving provides meaning for our humble (if still vicious) life of four-dimensional existence. Four-dimensional existence makes the frightening fox hunt into an entertainment, or war into a pastime or a sport. Even when evil is dull and monotonous, there tends to be a lot of movement, action and entertainment involved. Maybe movies are evil.
~ Gus Van Sant
Dimension, Existence, Culture and Identity all splinter and are left behind. Pink Sound, brothers and sisters. Pinkness. It's dark. It's... flat. It is unexplainable... it is peaceful... it is love... ...it is...
~ Gus Van Sant
Beyond peace, there is no longer any existence possible.
~ Gustav Heinemann
Each thing in earth is nothing but an eternal symbol clothed in dust.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Celý život není nic jiného než otázky, které dostaly tvar a které v sobÄ› nesou zárodek odpovÄ›dí - a není nic než odpovÄ›di, které jsou obt?žkány otázkami. Kdo v nÄ›m vidí nÄ›co jiného, je blázen.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Fiecare lucru de pe pamant nu e decat simbolul etern invesmantat in colb.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Avevo tuttavia ottenuto almeno un risultato fermo: la certezza che la successione degli avvenimenti della vita di ognuno non è che una strada senza uscita, per quanto ampia e facilmente percorribile possa sembrare, e che la soluzione del nostro più intimo mistero si può trovare nelle linee appena visibili incise nel nostro essere, piuttosto che nelle rivoltanti e ovvie cicatrici lasciate dalla raspa della vita esteriore.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Depuis une éternité j'étais rongé par un tourment opaque - une espèce de conviction floue qu'on m'avait pris quelque chose et que j'avais cheminé comme un somnambule pendant une partie de mon existence au bord d'un abîme sans fond. Et jamais je n'étais parvenu à en élucider l'origine.
~ Gustav Meyrink
N-om fi È™i noi, fiinÈ›ele vii, un soi de zdrenÈ›e de hârtie? Nu cumva vântul sau altceva, cine È™tie ce, ne mân?, nev?zut, neînÈ›eles încoace È™i încolo, hot?rând ce s? facem È™i ce nu când noi, neÈ™tiutori, ne încredem în voin?? È™i zicem c?-i a noastr?.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Nothing essential happens through death, only through birth and that is the whole trouble - But shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
~ Gustav Meyrink
Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
~ Gustav Meyrink
De pronto comprendí en lo más profundo de su ser a esas criaturas misteriosas que viven a mi alrededor: Se mueven sin voluntad por su existencia, agitadas por una corriente magnética invisible igual que hace un momento flotaba el ramo de novia, arrastrado por el arroyo de mugre.
~ Gustav Meyrink
No es posible que haya un "viento" incomprensible e invisible que nos llevara de un lado para otro, y determinara nuestras acciones, mientras que nosotros, en nuestra simpleza, creemos vivir bajo nuestra propia y libre voluntad?
~ Gustav Meyrink
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
~ Gustave Flaubert
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
~ Gustave Flaubert
Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.
~ Gustave Meyrink
Lo que ha sido no tiene razón de ser nuevamente y no será.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Yo no sé si ese mundo de visiones vive fuera o va dentro de nosotros.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Man is the only animal who knows that he is going to die. And so some people sustain themselves with the notion that this short life is only a beginning, that there is an endless party afterwards with music and angels somewhere up there in the exosphere.
~ Guy Bellamy
Nothing within the universe itself can exist to explain the fact that it exists.
~ Guy Consolmagno
Lives do not have plots, only biographies do.
~ Guy Davenport
The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.
~ Guy Davenport
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
~ Guy de Maupassant