Quotes About Existence

The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

Le bonheur est une illusion d'optique, deux miroirs qui se renvoient la même image à l'infini. N'essayez pas de remonter à l'image d'origine, il n'y en a pas.

Yod—Heh—Vau—Heh Atziluth—Briah—Yetzirah—Assiah Chiah—Neshamah—Ruach—Nephesh

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

I am. I was. I am not. I never am.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

Faith ... is a conscious apprehension of something inevident, something which unlike this desk and this chair is not seen to be there, even if it enters into the fabric of our personal relations to reality with at least as much force, relevance, and moment as things which are seen to be there.

A personal philosophical experience of moving out of a world of sense and arriving, dazed and disoriented for a while, into a universe of being.

God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God. Now, in an utterly simple being there can be nothing that is not that simple being itself. In God, therefore, whatever really is, is the same as God, is the same as that which is, is the same as that which subsists, and hence necessarily subsists.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing that they burst into laughter.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye--not creation, but insight.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

A dead man in Spain is more alive than a dead man anywhere in the world.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge How little we know that which we are! How less we may be!

The lapse of ages changes all things - time - language - the earth - the bounds of the sea - the stars of the sky, and everything 'about, around, and underneath' man, except man himself, who has always been and always will be, an unlucky rascal. The infinite variety of lives conduct but to death, and the infinity of wishes lead but to disappointment. All the discoveries which have yet been made have multiplied little but existence.

Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.