Quotes About Existence

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.

I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being...

Ivan and I: the world converging. Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Unii oameni traiesc, iar altii ii contempla cum traiesc, eu ma numar printre cei care contempla. Dumneavoastra?

Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don't forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.

You came after me, you can't have preceded me, you're completely inconceivable before me.

Nicht Schöneres unter der Sonne als unter der Sonne zu sein.

Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.

Must I forever? Must one forever? Must one wait a whole lifetime?

Bir ölüyüm ben, dola??p duran Art?k hiçbir yerde kayd?m yok. Bilinmiyorum mülki amirin görev yerinde. Say? fazlas?y?m alt?n kentlerde. Ve yeÅŸeren taÅŸra yörelerinde... VazgeçilmiÅŸim çoktan, ve hiçbir ÅŸeyle an?msanmam???m. Yaln?zca rüzgarla ve zamanla ve sesle, ben insanlar aras?nda yaÅŸayamayan...

I have lived in Ivan and die in Malina.

Och som vanligt när han berömde mig blev jag varm i hela kroppen; en stark, svindlande känsla, som en berusning. Gud, Gud, jag existerar!

who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.

We may think we have forever. . .no one does.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

Actually it deals ("as usual" I was about to say!) with Life, Love and Death. Because nothing in fact is more important. To occupy oneself with. To think of. To worry over. To be happy about. And so on.

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends. Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets? Death: I have no secrets. Antonius Block: So do you know nothing? Death: I am unknowing.

Johan: Jeg synes, livet er det værd, man lægger i det, hverken mere eller mindre. Jeg nægter at leve under evighedens synsvinkel. Scener fra et ægteskab

I believe a human being carries his or her own holiness, which lies within the realm of the earth; there are no otherworldly explanations.