Quotes About Existence

We are spirits clad in veils.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.

I think we are and will always be lonely people in a lonely world under lonely stars. We can never starve our loneliness. We can only hope that by the company of others, it doesn't devour us.

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.

The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself.

To aspire to life forever would be to acquire living at the expense of life.

Memories. Weighty emptinesses. I live in a memory the size and shape of a house.

He breathed in and felt that the air existed, certainly, as it circulated in and filled out two lunglike shapes, but what did that mean? One could have an entire face - something he wasn't sure he had right now - and still not exist.

We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept. The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the erotic drive of our nature is transformed into a personal relation when there arises in the space of the Other the first signifier of desire: the maternal presence. The subject is born with love's first leap of joy.

The people who really thirst for life, who stand daily on the brink of every kind of death, who struggle desperately to distinguish some light in the seated mystery of human existence— these are the people to whom the Gospel of salvation is primarily and most especially addressed, and inevitably they all remain far removed from the rationalistically organized social conventionalism of established Christianity.

In the Church, bodily asceticism has always been the supreme road to theological knowledge. It is not possible for man to come to know the truth of life, the truth of God and the truth of his own existence purely through intellectual categories...

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

There is the globe, The foundation of my bodily existence. It wears me out with work and duties, It gives me rest in old age, It gives me peace in death. For the on who supplied me with what I needed in life Will also give me what I need in death.

Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Heaven, Earth and I live together. All things and I comprise an inseparable Oneness.

In and of itself, nothing really matters. What matters is that nothing is ever in and of itself.