Quotes About Existence

Écrire, c'est faire appel au lecteur pour qu'il fasse passer à l'existence objective le dévoilement que j'ai entrepris par le moyen du langage.

I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon. ? Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea . (New Directions Publishing Corporation January 1, 1975) Originally published 1938.

In so far as I make a world exist as a complex of instruments which I use for the ends of my human reality, I cause myself to be determined in my being by a being who makes the world exist as a complex of instruments for the ends of his reality.

Ben geçmiÅŸimi nerede saklayaca??m? GeçmiÅŸinizi cebinizde saklayamazs?n?z. Onu koyacak bir eviniz olmal?. Gövdemden baÅŸka ÅŸeyim yok benim. Yapayaln?z bir adam, salt gövdesiyle an?lar? durdurup saklayamaz. An?lar üzerinden geçip gider onun.

Se muere siempre demasiado pronto, o demasiado tarde.

The voice is silent. The disc scrapes a little, then stops. Delivered from a troublesome dream, the café ruminates, chews the cud over the pleasure of existing.

La vida tiene un sentido si uno quiere dárselo.

No quiero secretos, ni estados de alma, ni cosas indecibles; no soy ni virgen ni sacerdote para jugar a la vida interior.

Sa do të doja të përhumbesha, të harrohesha, të flija. Por, nuk mundem, më merret fryma: ekzistenca më depërton nga të gjitha anët, nga sytë nga hunda, nga goja… Dhe në një çast, në një çast të vetëm, perdja griset, kuptova, pashë.

What an odd occupation: it doesn't look like a game or a rite, or a habit. I think they do it to pass the time, nothing more. But time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.

Omenirea e plin? doar de ea îns??i, nimeni nu-i lipseÈ™te È™i nu aÈ™teapt? pe nimeni. Va continua s? nu duc? nic?ieri È™i aceiaÈ™i oameni îÈ™i vor pune aceleaÈ™i întreb?ri È™i vor rata aceleaÈ™i vieÈ›i.

Aujourd'hui, je leur donne raison : ils avaient tout accepté de notre condition, même l'inquiétude ; j'avais choisi d'être rassuré ; et c'était bien vrai, au fond, que je me croyais immortel : je m'étais tué d'avance parce que les défunts sont seuls à jouir de l'immortalité.

Esto es lo que engaña a la gente; el hombre es siempre un narrador de historias; vive rodeado de sus historias y de las ajenas, ve a través de ellas todo lo que le sucede, y trata de vivir su vida como si la contara. Pero hay que escoger: o vivir o contar.

DüÅŸünüyorum da,'' diyorum gülerek. ''Ne düÅŸünüyordum biliyor muusunuz? Burada bir sürü insan?z, bedensel varl???m?z? korumak için yiyip içiyoruz, ama var olmam?? için hiçbir ÅŸey hiçbir neden yok.

existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing—not even a memory.

Ya ben kendi geçmiÅŸimi nerede saklayaca??m? GeçmiÅŸ cebe konmaz ki. Bunu yerleÅŸtirecek bir evin olmas? gerekir. Benimse sadece bedenim var. Bedeniyle yaln?z olan bir insan, an?lar? durduramaz, üzerinden a??p gider onlar. Ac? çekmeliyim. Sadece özgür olmak istedim.

Ama biz, yar?n?n henüz orada olmad???n? hep unutuyoruz.

There ought to exist for the human being, in so far as he is conscious of being, a certain mode of standing opposite his past and his future, as being both this past and this future and as not being them.

Behind me, in the town, in the big straight streets lit by the cold light of the street lamps, a tremendous social event was dying: it was the end of Sunday.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings.

Existence everywhere, to infinity, superfluous, always and everywhere; existence - which is never limited by anything but existence...existence is a repletion which man can never abandon.

Il pense donc que l'homme, sans aucun appui et sans aucun secours, est condamné à chaque instant à inventer l'homme.

And without formulating anything clearly, I understood that I had found the key to Existence, the key to my Nauseas, to my own life. In fact, all that I could grasp beyond that returns to this fundamental absurdity. Absurdity: another word; I struggle against words; down there I touched the thing. But I wanted to fix the absolute character of this absurdity here. A movement, an event in the tiny coloured world of men is only relatively absurd: by relation to the accompanying circumstances.

Existence precedes essence.