Quotes About Existence

Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living.

Life—how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

Mää olen ahven. Mää olen hiilest tehty ahven… Mää ihmettelen kauhiast.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Everything, that she was saying, now, everything that she saw and heard, took place in a deep numbness, in which all the senses are stilled and a person exists not in one's own life but with some emergency life that is stuck onto one. In such situations fear, pain, surprise and enlightenment come later, and until such time as one comes to one's senses, this sober, sturdy, and almost unfeeling mechanism takes over.

Why seek some higher truth and service, when all the truth is in the fact that you're worth nothing and won't be worth anything anymore, that everything that you came into the world to do, you've done long ago, and that your only work now is to be a burden to others. Is that so? Is it?

I am, whatever may come tomorrow, today I am.

Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve.

Whether a person is in bed or walking along and is struck by sudden death, it's right for humans to die on solid ground, with the earth beneath their feet and air trying to get into the lungs.

The fullness of existence, life's true richness, does not consist solely in health and happiness but in an ever-expanding range of joy and sorrow; and the broader the range, the richer life becomes.

What did you forget I existed?

Hay dos fronteras en nuestro mundo: la del tiempo y la del lugar.

Ser jóvenes», se dijo, «no es un mérito ni una virtud. Es simplemente una condición de la existencia».

Me gusta estar en el mundo.

Nadie puede decir con seguridad lo que es cierto y lo que no lo es. Lo que en realidad existe y lo que no. Por

There is something in me in the deepest part of me, at the center of me, something infinitely barren that doesn't weep when I weep that doesn't laugh when I laugh but seems to say eternally I'm here, indifferent to everything.

Love is like life but longer.

Every fact in this world, the God of the Bible claims, has His stamp indelibly engraved upon it.

If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

When on the created level of existence man thinks God's thoughts after him, that is, when man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge. When man thinks thus he thinks as a covenant creature should wish to think.