Quotes About Existence

The immortals are mortal, the mortals immortal, each living in the other's death and dying in the other's life.

This world… ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

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What are men? Mortal gods. What are gods? Immortal men.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

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That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god or man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

The waking have one world in common. Sleepers meanwhile turn aside, each into a darkness of his own.

The oneness of all wisdom may be found, or not, under the name of God.

Gods live past our meager death. We die past their ceaseless living.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life

That which always was, and is, and will be everliving fire, the same for all, the cosmos, made neither by god nor man, replenishes in measure as it burns away.

Just as the river where I step is not the same, and is, so I am as I am not.

Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life.

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

Si no hubiera un constante juego entre los contrastes, el mundo dejaría de existir

Into the same rivers we both step and do not step; we both are and are not.

When they are born, they wish to live and to meet with their dooms - or rather to rest - and they leave children behind them to meet with their dooms in turn.

Introite, nam et heic Dii sunt! (Enter, for here too are gods.)

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.