Quotes About Existence

Çünkü herkes gibi onun da ba??na gelecek. Çünkü hayat?n en rahats?z edici gücü, ölümdür. Çünkü ölüm çok adaletsizdir. Çünkü insan bir defa yaÅŸam?n tad?na var?nca ölüm dahi gözükmez ona...

Niente dura, e nondimeno niente passa. E niente passa proprio perché niente dura.

L'incanto irresistibile che continuiamo a esercitare, fino alla fine, con la superficie del nostro corpo […] si dimostra la cosa più seria che c'è nella vita. Il corpo, del quale uno non si può spogliare per quanti sforzi faccia, del quale è impossibile liberarsi fino alla morte.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach—that it makes no sense.

Fiction's about what it is to be a f*****g human being.

David Foster Wallace

Scegli in cosa credere, la vera libertà è la consapevolezza del reale.

David Foster Wallace

nothing from nature is good or bad. Natural things just are...

The self that begins the spiritual journey is the self of our own creation, the self we thought ourselves to be. This is the self that dies on the journey. The self that arrives is the self that was loved into existence by Divine Love. This is the person we were destined from eternity to become—the I that is hidden in the "I AM.

If God has come in the flesh, and if God keeps coming to us in our fleshly existence, then all of life is shot through with meaning. Earth is crammed with heaven, and heaven (when we finally get there) will be crammed with earth. Nothing wasted. Nothing lost. Nothing secular. Nothing absurd.... All are grist for the mill of a downto-earth spirituality.

Richard Rohr reminds us that "we cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's absent is awareness.

Created from love, of love and for love, our existence makes no sense apart from Divine love.

Not one of the creatures of blood can escape death. We all face it, and succumb to it. It follows us like a dark shadow. Yet if we live in terror of it, then we do not live at all. Yes we are born alone, and yes we will die alone. But in between, Tae, we live. We know joy.

No man should curse love. Ultimately, love is all there is.

The truth? What the Hell is the truth? We're born, we live and we die. Everything else is just shades of opinion.

We are not made for life at all, old horse. It is made for us. We live it. We leave it.

No one ever gets out of this life alive.

I feel that way about heaven; it's far more important that Heaven should exist than that I should ever see it.

I'm the only person who exists in my world—but isn't it that way for all of us?

Nobody was anything anymore.

People appeared enormously foolish to him. He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.

The bottom line was that he didn't want to die. As far as he was concerned, death was the problem. The basic human problem. Everyone's problem. He wasn't any different from anyone else, but there was no consolation in that.

H]e had this view of things - that most human activity was utter folly, his own included, and that his existence in the world made others nervous.