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Quotes About Existence

There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist.
~ Yann Martel
todo contiene rastros de lo divino.
~ Yann Martel
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.
~ Yann Martel
No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!
~ Unknown
You're living through the only moments that make life worthwhile... In love, even beasts become divine.
~ Yasmina Khadra
Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying.
~ Yasmina Khadra
My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.
~ Yasmina Reza
the two of us are giving ourselves something to do, citizens henceforth of a world in which desire no longer exists.
~ Yasmina Reza
Je ne crois en rien. Certainement pas à toutes ces imbécillités religieuses. Mais un peu aux anges. Aux constellations. À mon rôle, même infinitésimal, dans le livre des causes et des effets. Il n'est pas interdit de s'imaginer partie d'un tout.
~ Yasmina Reza
La complexité humaine ne se réduit à aucun principe de causalité.
~ Yasmina Reza
That's life. The celebration of the superfluous.
~ Yasmina Reza
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako's life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Manusia yang tak mau gelisah, sesungguhnya dia telah mati
~ Yasunari Kawabata
What seemed strangest to me when I found this diary was that I have no recollection of the day-to-day life it describes. If I do not recall them, where have those days gone? Where had they vanished to? I pondered the things that human beings lose to the past -from Diary of My Sixteenth Year
~ Yasunari Kawabata
El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Stop. I don't like it. I don't like having people die.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He was conscious of an emptiness that made him see Komako's life as beautiful but wasted, even though he himself was the object of her love; and yet the woman's existence, her straining to live, came touching him like naked skin. He pitied her, and he pitied himself.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It was not an adventure; it was my life.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I've never been in those places where I've never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Happy people have no reason to think. They live rather than question living.
~ Yi-Fu Tuan
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
~ Yogi Berra