Quotes About Existence

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

Who could think that a person's entire being is housed in a finger or in a hip bone or in a small piece of a skull, and that the rest of the body exists for appearances only?

Nada puedo decir sobre el estado de mi alma; existimos, eso es todo».

Las pocas veces que he sido feliz he tenido profundo miedo ¿cómo iba a pagar la factura? Solo los insensatos —o los no nacidos— son felices sin temor.

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.

What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

But religions are only temporarily successful attempts to cope with the lack of meaning in life; they are not permanent answers.

We humans may think of ourselves as solid objects, all flesh and bone. But take a close look, and it's clear our bodies are composed largely of oxygen and hydrogen. We are essentially ephemeral – akin as much to wind water, and fire as to earth.

There is nothing in man or nature that does not ask questions.

Anything that happen in this world is a part of life.

As the poet Rumi says, "Lovers don't finally meet somewhere; they're in each other all along.

the apt conclusion may be not that the universe is meaningless but that we have identified meaning with rational explanation. "Might it not be the case that the reason for existence has no explanation in the usual sense?" he asks-and then answers himself with a remarkable observation: "This does not mean that the universe is absurd or meaningless. Only that an understanding of its existence and properties lies outside the usual categories of rational human thought"5

In prayer we acknowledge God as the suprenie source from which flows all strength, all goodness, all existence, acknowledging that we have our being, lift, itself from this supreme Power. One can then communicate with this Source, worship it, and ultirmatelil place one"s eery center in it.

Humans looked at the stars and they wished and they dreamed. He looked at the stars and knew they didn't matter. The stars were just chunks of glass in the black sky. No, the stars were meaningless.

If you live that way, always letting the fear take over, I learned that you're not really living at all.

Man [as Bill often said] is a virus in shoes.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

The duplicity of Mrs. Pink in having concealed the existence of a husband was enthusiastically condemned by one and all. She was variously described as sly, deceitful, and even—ultimate reproach—as no better than she should be.

Perché bisogna portare con sé la propria vita come uno spettacolo effimero e invisibile agli altri?

I mostly believe, deep in my bones, that life is very simply beyond description; regardless of what one makes of it, life always spills over the parameters of how anyone has chosen to define it.