Quotes About Existence

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.

Thomas Brooks defines providence this way: "It is the unceasing activity of the sovereign Creator whereby, he upholds His creatures in orderly existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances and free acts of men and angels, no matter how great or trivial. All of this is done to accomplish one great design: to give glory to Himself.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

We are stardust Billion-year old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden

The scariest thing about life that I have yet to face is to know whether or not I lived, for I won't know the answer until I'm dead ~By Jordan

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta - falou João Fulgêncio. - O facto de não se compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta. O fato de não compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.

Love is not to be proven or measured,' said Joao Fulgencio. 'It's like Gabriela. It exists, and that is enough. The fact that you can't understand or explain something doesn't do away with it. I know nothing about the stars, but I see them in the heavens; and my ignorance in no way affects either their existence or their beauty' (376).

Siempre hay dos opciones existenciales: estamos en el amor o estamos en el miedo. Cuando estamos instalados en el miedo, tememos ser heridos y el corazón se cierra, el ego toma el control y queremos un disfrute sin riesgos. Nos volvemos posesivos, queremos todo de todos, que nos contengan, que nos tengan en cuenta permanentemente, que no nos sofoquen ni manipulen.

Porque, aunque no nos demos cuenta, esta vida que estamos construyendo es la vida en la que vamos a vivir nosotros.

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

Hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin pájaros; hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin agua; en lo que a mi se refiere, soy incapaz de imaginar un mundo sin libros. There are those who cannot imagine a world without birds; there are those who cannot imagine a world without water; but in my case I am unable to imagine a world without books.

De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men.

With relief, with humiliation, with terror, he understood that he too was a mere appearance, dreamt by another.

There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.