Quotes About Existence

What nature creates has eternity in it.

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

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.

Hon såg att hon var ensam i världen och omgiven av kraftfulla fjärran krafter som bara var bundna av det att leva."

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

El pasado y el futuro eran parte de la misma cosa y la realidad del presente era un caleidoscopio de espejos desordenados, donde todo podía ocurrir.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

That objective truth exists, that it can be discovered, and that life, individual and social, can be lived in its light – this belief is more characteristic of the Russians than of anyone else in the modern world.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

I was sad to leave, but I was also pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. Because if I was to get killed upon my return, I knew that a memory of my existence was alive somewhere in the world.

You cannot defeat the sea - it is too great and too uncaring. You can only surrender to its power...All things that exist live, though maybe they do not measure life as we do. [Chapter 35, page 305]

Had not the jutting bones of the world survived a thousand aeons of human life? Could anything I or any human do really matter in the face of that? [Chapter 35, page 510]

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

Where there are humans you'll find flies, and Buddhas.

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

I felt a kind of vertigo, as if I were merely plunging from one world to another, and in each I arrived shortly after the end of the world had taken place.

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it never existed, and therefore in order to really live you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible, or else consider photographable every moment of your life.

The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind. […] Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.