Quotes About Existence

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

I drink to separate my body from my soul.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...

With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols of things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

It was as if by taking a photo he could, at any moment, rein habit an older life - one where a body didn't droop, or hair didn't fall out, or a future didn't have to exist

Years later, in America, I was told that Navajo Indians believed coyotes ushered in the Big Bang of the world with their song, stood on the rim of nothingness, before time, shoved their pointed muzzles in the air, and howled the world into existence at their feet. The Indians called them longdogs. The universe was etched with their howls, sound merging into sound, the beginning of all other songs.

Aber das ist das Problem mit dem Alter: Man hat ein Gefühl, aber kein Datum. Und wenn man das Datum ausgräbt, verliert man das Gefühl.

The only interesting thing is to live.

He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then the ease away from it.

Het was krankzinnig hoe klein de wereld in wezen was.

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.