Quotes About Existence

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life. And I love my real people the most.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

It sounds a little extreme, but in this day and age, if your work isn't online, it doesn't exist.

I was thinking that work is like fertilizer in that I'm glad it exists; I just don't ever want to get stuck in it.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

It's hard work being a person, you have to do it every single day.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Where there is most labour there is not always most life.

Is not every life, every work fine?

Being a human means waking up in this world, where we all have to work and slog to put food on the table.

To be is to be related.

There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.

Racism is real; it exists here and now. You can find it on the streets, in your office, and in football stadiums.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.