Quotes About Existence

Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn't belong to them and I was missing me.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

I wanted to work out a trade with things that aren't alive but aren't dead either. I wanted to make an emergency exchange, trading my body for the horizon line above and the dusty roads on the earth below. I wanted to borrow their endurance, exist without my body, and when the worst was over, slip back into my body and reappear in my fufaika. This had nothing to do with dying, quite the opposite.

Der Mann ist ein schwarzer Faden, der in die Pflanzen geht. Das schlagende Gras hebt ihn über die Erde.

Much of the difficulty which mental institutions have in their relations with the psychopath springs from a lack of awareness in the public that he exists.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?

To advocate a New Order was to seek freedom and respect for peoples without prejudice, and to seek a stable basis for the existence all peoples, equally, and free of threats.

We are all dying, just at different speeds.

He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they need to know.

Nothing hurts, or perhaps it's that everything hurts, because there is no separate pain that he can pick out.

Children's] lives start long before birth, long before conception, and if they are aborted or miscarried or simply fail to materialise at all, they become ghosts in our lives...The unborn, whether they're named or not, whether or not they're acknowledged, have a way of insisting: a way of making their presence felt.

It's not easy to speak of nonexistence, even if you've already commissioned your tomb.

You shouldn't believe in ghosts,' he says uncertainly. 'I don't,' Martian says. 'But who are they to care, if I believe in them or not?

He does not even hate Francis Weston, any more than you hate a biting midge; you just wonder why it was created.

If a man should live as if every day is his last, he should also die as if there is a day to come, and another after that.

Render me the texture of flesh. Pick me what it is, in the timbre of the voice, that marks out the living from the dead.

occurs to him that when he is dead, other people will be getting on with their day;

For a young reader that's an important moment, when you recognize that your self exists in the world and that your self exists in literature.

We are always dying – I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or block their ears; they are all dying.

in the particular case of human beings, there can be no determination of what a human being is, no human nature, apart from the manifold ways in which humans become, as they live out their lives in diverse communities and environments.

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.

Do fairies have tails? More than that, do fairies even exist? Nobody knows for sure. So this guild is like them, an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure.

Reality is the lifeblood that makes a work pulse with energy. Reality itself is entertainment!