Quotes About Existence

Himmel und Hölle sind zwei große Symbole und bezeichnen die beiden einzigen Punkte, um die sich unser Dasein dreht: Lust und Schmerz.

Setting aside all the religious question,' my uncle said, 'I would remark to your Excellency that Nature only owes us life, and that it is society that owes us happiness

Noble natures cannot dwell in this world,

Art can go no further than this. Art has risen above Nature, since Nature only gives her creatures a few brief years of life.

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas não expressam o seu excesso transbordante, esse não sei o quê que talvez seja a alma e que flutua enevoadamente sobre o invólucro[...]

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Fairyland is the place where what we look upon as symbols and figures actually exist and occur

Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He had thought that he himself was the only real person in a field of human flowers. For Master Nathaniel that was a moment of surprise, triumph, tenderness, alarm.

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

We are but dust and shadow.

pero cada mañana amanecía lívida, en

To have any goal in your life is to forget about the uselessness of life. To think of interesting ideas. - Isvan Moldovan

Be Here and Now Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use. And if something cracks it, then it's cracked, that's all.

There is no word for the sound a life makes.

you might as well wager on God because that way, even if He doesn't exist, you've nothing to lose. Whereas if you wager against God and He does exist . . .

Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?

we all have a tendency to become so 'caught up' and identified with activity and external happenings that we neglect and lose touch with the 'I' that is there underneath it all. We are so engaged in what we are seeing, what we are feeling, or what we are doing, that we forget about the 'I' that is doing the seeing, having the feelings or performing the actions.

What separates us from God is our own sense of separateness.

presence of the great light, center of all being,

Emptiness does not mean nothingness but the availability of space that allows a building to be rebuilt, out of true emptiness arises wondrous existence

on m a dit : tu n es que cendre et poussière.On a oublié de me dire qu il s agissait de poussières d étoiles