Quotes About Existence

Names are what you can hear or see, but cannot smell or touch. I don't need a name, as name stand for things they are not, and I am what all names stand for. If you gave me a name, it would mean that we are separate, you and I, when we are not. - The Blind Girl and the Talking Moon

All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence.

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

Contradiction is an inseparable part of the human condition, and that suffices as a source of miraculousness.

The bright side of the planet moves towards darkness and the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, and for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.

If only the stars contained me. If only everything kept happening in such a way That the so-called world opposed the so-called flesh.

I said so little. Days were short. Short days. Short nights. Short years. I said so little. I couldn't keep up. My heart grew weary From joy, Despair, Ardor, Hope. The jaws of Leviathan Were closing upon me. Naked, I lay on the shores Of desert islands. The white whale of the world Hauled me down to its pit. And now I don't know What in all that was real.

How to resist nothingness? What power Preserves what once was, if memory does not last? For I remember little. I remember so very little.

Queremos comprender, creemos que si vivimos lo bastante vamos a comprender el mundo; dentro de una hora, mañana, dentro de un año,... Pero quizá no importe nada comprender o no.

Å»yjesz tu, teraz. Hic et nunc. Masz jedno ?ycie, jeden punkt. Co zd??ysz zrobi?, to zostanie, Cho?by ktoÅ› inne mógÅ' mie? zdanie.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence.

For to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name.

We and the flowers throw shadows on the earth. What has no shadow has no strength to live

To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Si tan solo fuera posible detener un solo instante lo que ocurre en todas partes, congelarlo, contemplarlo como encerrado en una bola de crista, aislándolo del instante anterior y del instante posterior, y transformar así el hilo del tiempo en el océano del espacio. Pero no.

Living, I want to depart to where I am.

The living moment is everything.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

I saw the horrible way that people could treat each other. That may be the saddest thing of all. I saw greed and anger and murder and a total lack of concern for human life. It was a wicked side of the human soul that I saw... and it saddened me to know that such a dark place existed.

an environment that holds the baby well enough, the baby is able to make personal development according to the inherited tendencies. The result is a continuity of existence that becomes a sense of existing, a sense of self, and eventually results in autonomy.

But is it?' Guthrie says, waving his hands in the effort to explain. 'We're living in the twentieth century, of course, but are they?

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes water and nobody knows what that is.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.