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Quotes About Existence

Eres tan sólo un sueño, pero en ti sueña el mundo y su mudez habla con tus palabras.
~ Octavio Paz
Mas enquanto vivemos não podemos escapar das máscaras nem dos nomes e pronomes: somos inseparáveis das nossas ficções- das nossas facções. Estamos condenados a inventar uma máscara e a descobrir, depois, que essa máscara é nosso verdadeiro rosto.
~ Octavio Paz
Nuestro culto a la muerte es culto a la vida, del mismo modo que el amor, que es hambre de vida, es anhelo de muerte.
~ Octavio Paz
El hombre es un ser que se ha creado sí mismo al crear un lenguaje.
~ Octavio Paz
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
~ Ohran Pamuk
Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
~ Olaf Stapledon
No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
~ Olaf Stapledon
We should not for a moment consider even our best-established knowledge of existence as true. It is awareness only of the colors that our own vision paints on the film of one bubble in one strand of foam on the ocean of being.
~ Olaf Stapledon
I'm afraid I'm not working out according to plan, he said. But if I am really a person you shouldn't expect me to. Why did you make me without making a world for me to live in. It's as though God had made Adam and not bothered to make Eden, nor Eve. I think it's going to be frightfully difficult being me.
~ Olaf Stapledon
Hers was a small and lonely life, a rigorous servitude in preparation for a bigger life, as she tried to see it; yet now, just beneath the thinning fabric of her existence, she sensed an invisible roiling of vast, terrifying, dangerous things—things that would play with you if you pleased them, things that would kill you if you proved a disappointment.
~ Olga Grushin
So age succeeds age, and dream succeeds dream, and of the joy of the dreamer no man knoweth but he who dreameth. Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
~ Olive Schreiner
freedom is the knowledge of necessity and there is no wealth but life. When you understand that you understand everything.
~ Olivia Manning
We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.
~ Oprah Winfrey
French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
~ Oprah Winfrey
My entire life is a miracle. And so is yours. That I know for sure. No matter how you came to be—whether you were wanted or "an accident" (as I was labeled for many years)—your being here to read these words is awesome.
~ Oprah Winfrey
As a spirit dwelling in the ever-evolving human experience, I know that I am no better or worse than any other being. I simply am. You simply are. We are connected.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What is the soul? Indie Arie: The real you. You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
~ Oprah Winfrey
being here, alive, makes you worthy.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson
~ Oprah Winfrey
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
~ Orhan Pamuk
We live but for a short time, we see but very little, and we know almost nothing; so, at least, let's do some dreaming. Have yourself a very good Sunday, my dear readers.
~ Orhan Pamuk
every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.
~ Orhan Pamuk