Quotes About Existence

La vida es una borrachera. El único hombre sobrio es el melancólico que, desencantado, contempla la vida, ve cómo es y se corta el gaznate. Si es así, quiero estar muy borracho. Lo importante es vivir, agarrarnos a nuestra existencia y salir corriendo con ella en una búsqueda intensa y apasionante.

When I was me I remembered I could remember what was not there but may have been there once

the dead are not separate from the living each has one foot in the unknown and cannot speak for the other

On the door it says what to do to survive But we were not born to survive Only to live

Place" On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not for the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in the earth for the first time with the sun already going down and the water touching its roots in the earth full of the dead and the clouds passing one by one over its leaves

Everything that does not need you is real

How It Happens" The sky said I am watching to see what you can make out of nothing I was looking up and I said I thought you were supposed to be doing that the sky said Many are clinging to that I am giving you a chance I was looking up and I said I am the only chance I have then the sky did not answer and here we are with our names for the days the vast days that do not listen to us

Trees" I am looking at trees they may be one of the things I will miss most from the earth though many of the ones I have seen already I cannot remember and though I seldom embrace the ones I see and have never been able to speak with one I listen to them tenderly their names have never touched them they have stood round my sleep and when it was forbidden to climb them they have carried me in their branches

In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there

How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it

what I live for I can seldom believe in

In each world they may put us Farther apart Do not die As this world is made I might Live forever

Waking Hanging upward into the rushing summer Calling -- Everything is The answer Too fast --

from what we cannot hold the stars are made

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

There's no such thing as probability, " she says, slowly, with minimal movement of her jaw. "Things turn out the way they do.

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.

Are you living in a computer simulation?