Quotes About Existence

No one in particular. A man of no importance. CURTAIN

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.

I did not know it was such pain to die; I thought that life had taken all the agonies to itself.

My existence is a scandal.

Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment .

And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessness, its grotesque want of meaning. How incoherent everything seemed! How lacking in all harmony! He was amazed at the discord between the shallow optimism of the day, and the real facts of existence. He was still very young.

But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. 

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.

El sufrimiento -por curioso que esto pueda parecerte- es el medio por el que existimos, y es el único medio por el que somos conscientes de existir; y el recuerdo del sufrimiento en el pasado nos es necesario como garantía, evidencia, de nuestra identidad continuada.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui

Death is the brother of Sleep, is he not?

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

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

Truth in art is not any correspondence between the essential idea and the accidental existence; it is not the resemblance of shape to shadow, or of the form mirrored in the crystal to the form itself; it is no echo coming from a hollow hill anymore than it is a silver well of water in the valley that shows the moon to the moon and Narcissus to Narcissus.

Das wirkliche Leben war Chaos, aber es lag eine schreckliche Logik in der Phantasie.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

Soul and body, body and soul--how mysterious they were! There was animalism in the soul, and the body had its moments of spirituality.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, an so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal.

And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.

It seemed that twenty-five thousand Chicanos had marched down Whittier Boulevard. But what had started as a protest against the burning of peasants in Vietnam turned into a massive public declaration by fire of their own existence

Perhaps my whisper was already born before my lips.

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.