Quotes About Existence

Woods disguised as woods alive without end, and above them birds in flight play birds in flight.

in daily speech, where we don't stop to consider every word, we all use phrases like the ordinary world, ordinary life, the ordinary course of events ... But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it. Not a single day and not a single night after it. And above all, not a single existence, not anyone's existence in this world.

La vida dura unos cuantos rasguños en la arena

It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat.

The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on—I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!

Lata rozpadajÄ… siÄ™ na miesiÄ…ce, miesiÄ…ce na dni, dni na godziny, minuty na sekundy, a sekundy przeciekajÄ…. Czym jestem? Jestem pewna iloÅ›ciÄ… sekund - które przeciekÅ'y. Rezultat: nic. Nic.

Witold Gombrowicz

The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs.

Normalno?? jest linoskoczkiem nad otch?ani? nienormalno?ci.

I was left alone but actually not alone—how could I be alone when I wasn't even there, I had no sense of being there, and not a single thought, gesture, action, or word, in fact nothing seemed to be mine, but rather it was as if it had all been settled somewhere outside myself, decided for me—because in reality I was quite different!

Daj mi teraz marzy?, daj - i ju? nikt nie wie, co jest realne, a czego w ogóle nie ma, gdzie prawda, gdzie zÅ'uda, co siÄ™ czuje, czego siÄ™ nie czuje, gdzie naturalno??, a gdzie sztuczno??, zgrywa i to, co powinno by?, miesza siÄ™ z tym, co nieubÅ'agane jest, i jedno i drugie dyskwalifikuje, jedno drugiemu odbiera wszelkÄ… racjÄ™ bytu, o, wielka szkoÅ'o nierzeczywistoÅ›ci.

Poniedzia?ek Ja. Wtorek Ja. ?roda Ja. Czwartek Ja. Pi?tek

Tera?niejsza my?l francuska o ?mierci jest dla mnie wyj?tkowo sztuczna, jak z reszt? wszystkie inne mementa mori. Stanowi? one jeden przyk?ad wi?cej, jak dalece my?li nasze s? nam obce. To wa?kowanie ?mierci wykazuje jedynie, ?e nie jeste?my w stanie jej zasymilowa?; albowiem ona - gdyby?my naprawd? wyczuli jej obecno?? - musia?aby odebra? nam sen i apetyt; ale nie przeszkadza nam nawet w chodzeniu do kina.

And the ridiculous impotence of words in the face of life!

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

The I, the I is what is deeplt mysterious.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Here it can be seen that solipsism, when its implications are followed out strictly, coincides with pure realism.

6.41 Der Sinn der Welt muss ausserhalb ihrer liegen.

Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist. Die Welt ist die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen, nicht der Dinge...

The world is everything that is the case.

If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.

Ein Mensch stirbt. Und? Nichts weiter. Der Wind weht weiter. Die Elbe quasselt weiter. Die Straßenbahn klingelt weiter.