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Quotes About Existence

soul." "There cannot be," said Ravan. "A person cannot be Devoured by their own soul. It would be like being murdered by life.
~ Holly Black
as though she was the only real thing in a land of ghosts.
~ Holly Black
What happiness do you have? Rutting and breeding. You'd go mad if you accepted the truth of what you are. You are nothing. You barely exist at all. Your only purpose is to create more of your kind before you die some pointless and agonizing death.
~ Holly Black
Zgnije wszystko, co masz i czym jesteÅ›, stanie siÄ™ nicoÅ›ciÄ…. W nico?? siÄ™ obrócisz. NicoÅ›ciÄ… jesteÅ›.
~ Holly Black
Sabes lo que significa «mortal»? Significa «nacido para morir». Significa «aquel que merece la muerte». Eso es lo que eres, eso es lo que te define: la muerte.
~ Holly Black
Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe.
~ Holly Black
But All I Am Is Magic. Unmagic. I Am Not Nothing. I Am What Is Beyond Nothing. Annihilation. I Am The Unraveler. I Can Pull Apart Magic With A Thought.
~ Holly Black
there is only tomorrow and tonight and now and soon and never
~ Holly Black
They are beautiful and terrible, and they might despise my mortality, might mock it, but I am up here and they are not.
~ Holly Black
You are mortal. You will not last long.' ... 'That's what mortal means,' I say with a sigh that I don't have to fake. 'We die. Think of us like shooting stars, brief but bright.
~ Holly Black
The human soul is the opposite of chaos, of nothingness. The soul is everything.
~ Unknown
Memories were your most intimate legacy. But if those memories were compromised in some way, would your continued existence be compromised, too?
~ Unknown
It was so beautiful to know that I would go on forever, and so terrible to know that the part of me that fought through the pain of existence as Cadence Drake would never be only Cadence Drake beyond the few brief, flickering instants that my fragile fleshself survived. I would be absorbed into the greater whole and would cease to exist.
~ Holly Lisle
In this moment, in whatever form it comes, lies the only opportunity I will ever have to act, to think, to love. Only this moment, out of every moment I have ever lived, or will ever live, allows me to matter now.
~ Holly Lisle
life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.
~ Unknown
Men flourish only for a moment.
~ Homer
Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.
~ Homer
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
~ Homer
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.
~ Homer
Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
~ Homer
In the desert there is all—and yet nothing…. God is there and man is not.
~ Honore de Balzac
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
~ Honore de Balzac
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
~ Honore de Balzac
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
~ Honore de Balzac