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Quotes About Existence

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.
~ Daniel Handler
Que si está bien no ser virgen, sí. La mayoría de la gente no lo es, Min. Para empezar, por eso existe la gente.
~ Daniel Handler
Light and unfeeling. Drifting and expanding through time and space. And then, as I know I am about to pierce the crust of existence, like a flying fish leaping out of the sea, I feel the pull from below.
~ Daniel Keyes
The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me-a sense of resignation. There had been no talk of rehabilitation, of cure, of someday sending these people out into the world again. No one had spoken of hope. The feeling was of living death-or worse, of never having been fully alive and knowing. Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day.
~ Daniel Keyes
It doesn't mean,' she shrugged. 'It just is
~ Daniel Keyes
A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.
~ Daniel Keyes
Souls withered from the beginning, and doomed to stare into the time and space of every day.
~ Daniel Keyes
Sinto medo. Não da vida ou da morte ou do nada, mas de desperdiçá-la, como se eu nunca tivesse existido.
~ Daniel Keyes
Who's to say death is better than your darkness?
~ Daniel Keyes
It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...
~ Daniel Keyes
It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now--so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, an response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see al the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light...
~ Daniel Keyes
It doesn't mean - she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.
~ Daniel Keyes
Chiudendo la porta sul mondo reale, potremo vivere in pace nel nostro. Sappiamo che un mondo senza dolore è un mondo senza sentimento... ma un mondo senza sentimento è un mondo senza dolore.
~ Daniel Keyes
They all think I'm killing myself at this pace, but what they don't understand is that I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed.
~ Daniel Keyes
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. And as I start through the opening, I feel the pressure around me, propelling me in violent wavelike motions toward the mouth of the cave
~ Daniel Keyes
Me tornei autorizado a existir apenas onde não sou visto.
~ Daniel Keyes
A sensação era de viver a morte - ou pior, de nunca ter estado realmente vivo e consciente. Almas murchavam desde o início e estavam condenadas a encarar o tempo e o espaço do cotidiano.
~ Daniel Keyes
It doesn't mean, she shrugged. It just is - like a poem.
~ Daniel Keyes
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything — all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know if its existence, and to understand one grain of it. Is there time?
~ Daniel Keyes
Essere vivi significa avere qualcosa da raccontare. Vuol dire essere l'eroe, il protagonista di una vicenda. Quando si diventa un personaggio marginale nella narrazione di qualcun altro, allora si è davvero morti.
~ Daniel Mendelsohn
to be nothing is to enter into totality
~ Daniel Odier
the Lankavatara Sutra transmitted by Bodhidharma, declared: "There is not a trace of the absolute outside of reality.
~ Daniel Odier
in the activity of the senses the authentic foundation of existence.
~ Daniel Odier
The state of nirvana infuses all of samsara, and the absolute is found in reality
~ Daniel Odier