Quotes About Existence

He wanted to hear his own footsteps to prove that he trod the ground.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

Said, who was born in Mandatory Palestine in 1935, was fond of T. S. Eliot's idea that reality could not be deprived of the other echoes that inhabit the garden.

Philosophie bedeutet, sein Leben zu denken und sein Denken zu leben. Besser denken um besser zu leben.

Si hanno due vite. La seconda comincia il giorno in cui ci si rende conto che non se ne ha che una.

Me preguntas por qué compro arroz y flores? Compro arroz para vivir y flores para tener algo por lo que vivir.

I hate to tell but now is all there ever is.

Time is the fire in which we burn. —Delmore Schwartz

Because Dunworthy is not blinking against the fatal sunlight of the last morning, but into the gloom of that first afternoon, looking in the great west doors of St. Paul's at what is, like Langby, like all of it, every moment, in us, saved forever.

Vivimos como soñamos, solos.

Nimeni nu poate s? ias? din propria sa existen??, aÈ™a cum nici ursul nu poate s? ias? din cuÈ™ca lui de la menajerie. Tot ceea ce i se întâmpl? cuiva din partea altcuiva pare straniu pentru noi. Când noi ar?t?m interes preocup?rilor altora, acord?m, de fapt, interes propriilor noastre preocup?ri.

Surely I am me. There must be a me more than the beauty of my face, there must be a something other than the delicacy of skin and the accidental lines of my jaw and cheekbone. What have men loved if it wasn't me? Can I ever find out who I am or what I am if I don't let beauty perish and live on in whatever flesh age gives me?

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.War is god.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.