Quotes About Existence

We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which is our actual experience.

Tell me what matters, BZ said. Nothing, Maria said.

I am what I am. To look for 'reasons' is beside the point.

Seuls ceux qui survivent à une mort se retrouvent véritablement seuls. Les liens qui constituaient leur existence - les plus profonds comme les plus insignifiants en apparence - ont tous disparu.

I know what 'nothing' means, and I keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.

I am what I am. To look for «reasons» is beside the point.

we tell ourselves stories in order to live..

You see what the world of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

You see what the word of Michael Laski is: a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

They say an unexamined life is not worth living

She understood very well that when you took a good look under a clear, hard light, the world was a fucked-up hellhole. Most people knew this, she'd known this, but nobody wanted to think about it all the time. It didn't pay to forget for too long.

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.

Vraj má ?lovek len jeden život. Na internete zistíte, že to nie je pravda. Zadajte si do Googlu svoje meno a uvidíte, ko?kí ?alÅ¡í ho nosia. Sú to ?udia, ktorými by sme mohli byÃ…Â¥: úbožiak, Å¡portovec, takmer slávny herec, odsúdenec ?akajúci na smrÃ…Â¥, slávny kuchár, osoba s rovnakým dátumom narodenia ako vy... tiene toho, ?o mohlo byÃ…Â¥, keby bolo vÅ¡etko trochu inak.

Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them?

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

Life asked death, "Why do people love me but hate you?" Death responded, "Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth." —Unknown

I believe in Hell...but it's here on earth. He shakes his head. Good people and bad people. As if it were this easy. Everyone is both of these at once.

Life is not a plot; it's in the details.