Quotes About Existence

What was real seemed illusive and without definition.

I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative. I didn't know there was such a Fellow, Buttercup said. Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.

This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

Da che esistono le donne, esistono i parrucchieri, e Adamo fu il primo, benché gli studiosi di Re Giacomo abbiano tentato di confondere le acque.

Te amo. Te amo. Te abandoné en el Pantano de Fuego para poner a prueba tu amor. ¿Es tan grande como el mío por ti? ¿Acaso pueden dos amores así existir en un mismo planeta y al mismo tiempo? ¿Hay lugar para algo así, amado Westley...?

How Buttercup slid from her womb was, of course, beyond her. But she had been there when it happened; that was enough for her.

It was 5.48, and she knew that she would never die.

Belief creates the actual fact.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

Damn the Absolute!

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Whatever is beyond this narrow rational consciousness we mistake for our only consciousness.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.

Our normal waking consciousness . . . is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are all there in all their completeness . . . No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness.

It's turtles all the way down.

The opposition between the men who have and the men who are is immemorial.

Freedom is only necessity understood.

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

O God! What a misfortune to be born! Born like a mushroom, doubtless between an evening and a morning

It may be that no religious reconciliation with the absolute totality of things is possible. Some evils, indeed, are ministerial to higher forms of good; but it may be that there are forms of evil so extreme as to enter into no good system whatsoever…

the rhetorical formulas of objurgation with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: whether you were dead