Quotes About Existence

Today, I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence.

he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something and someone still pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving.

man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.

But here in the Lager there are no criminals nor madmen; no criminals because there is no moral law to contravene, no madmen because we are wholly devoid of free will, as our every action is, in time and place, the only conceivable one.

For living men, the units of time always have a value, which increases in ratio to the strength of the internal resources of the person living through them; but for us, hours, days, months spilled out sluggishly from the future into the past, always too slowly, a valueless and superfluous material, of which we sought to rid ourselves as soon as possible. ... For us, history had stopped.

Non ho mai capito come allora quanto sia laboriosa la morte di un uomo.

S? închizi între fire de sârm? ghimpat? mii de indivizi de vârste, condiÈ›ii, origini, limbi, culturi È™i obiceiuri diferite È™i s?-i supui unui regim de via?? constant, controlabil, identic pentru toÈ›i È™i mai prejos de orice necesitate e cel mai diabolic experiment pentru a stabili ce este esenÈ›ial È™i ce este dobândit în comportamentul animalului-om în lupta pentru existen??.

demasiado joven, que te obsesiona con sus peticiones de ayuda, o con su simple «estar», que ya en sí es una súplica, es una constante de la vida en el Lager. La necesidad de solidaridad, de una voz humana, de un consejo, incluso sólo de alguien que escuchase, era permanente y universal, pero se satisfacía raramente.

In quei giorni e in quei luoghi, poco dopo il passaggio de fronte, un vento alto spirava sulla faccia della terra: il mondo intorno a noi sembrava ritornato al Caos primigenio, e brulicava di esemplari umani scaleni, difettivi, abnormi; e ciascuno di essi si agitava in moti ciechi o deliberati, in ricerca affannosa della propria sede, della propria sfera, come praticamente si narra delle particelle dei quattro elementi nelle cosmogonie degli antichi.

The world is imperfect, but there are millions of perfect moments.

Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

Is it Chance, mere circumstance That man eats cow eats grass eats soil and then man dies, and when he lies to the soil he does return?

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered—they are relived.

I am my thoughts, but the sources of my thoughts exceed me. I do not own myself, because the darkness comes before me.

All men are greater than dead men.

But you do understand. Think, Leweth. If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.

All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself

If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died.

It … It … It is what it is!

Tir hoila ishrahoi, coi ri pirith mutoi'on; Tir miyil oitossi, kun ri mursal arilil hi; Tirsa hir'gingall vo'is?

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

There are all kinds of worlds in the real world, she said softly. Most people don't know that. ~ (From The Nightmare Room #8, Shadow Girl)

Other world! There is no other world! Here or nowhere is the whole fact.

Abyss is not an absence Though presence be destroyed.