Quotes About Existence

Levinas's thought emphasizes not the primacy of the self, but the primacy of the other—that is, other human beings. He taught that the self comes into existence

You are only partly alive.

How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

was everything. Eve

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

That says a lot, if somebody pleases you - love is so much more that I'm thinking, perhaps it doesn't exist at all.

Was man glaubt, gibt es.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.

There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It must lead to terror and then, terror exhausted, to cynicism and torpor. But surely there is another utopia. It cannot be willed either into existence or out of sight, it speaks for our sense of what may yet be.

There can't be much development of action or theme in such stories, but at least there is some. By contrast, in the short short the very idea of character seems to lose its significance, seems in fact to drop out of sight. We see human figures in a momentary flash. We see them in fleeting profile. We see them in archetypal climaxes which define their mode of existence. Situation tends to replace character, representative condition to replace individuality. ("Introduction")

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

God Was Here but He Left Early

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

hakol havel (Hebrew: "Vanity of vanities… All is vanity"): Ecclesiastes 12:8.

What did our dear Joseph manage to see in life? Bupkis is what.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.