Quotes About Existence

Man's lot? He is by mindless lust engendered and by mindless wrench expelled, from the Eden of the womb to the motley, mindless world. He is Chance's fool, the toy of aimless Nature—a mayfly flitting down the winds of Chaos!

Brez pravega upanja upam, da sem fikcija.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later [1978]

The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who's there?

Oh better far those echoing hells Half-threaten'd in the pealing bells Than that this 'I' should cease to be—

There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in the Absolutist)

Se me ocurre que, incluso aunque Zoya y yo aún seguimos vivos, mi vida ha concluido ya. No tardaré en perderla y no habrá razón para que continúe sin ella. Verán, es que somos una sola persona. Somos GeorgiZoya.

The sensation that for the world to exist with an object of such beauty in it—and for that object to be unattainable—was the very sweetest kind of pain imaginable.

Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.

Hay cosas que sencillamente están ahí, sin molestar a nadie, esperando a que las descubran.

Hay mas cosas en el cielo y en la tierra que todas las que pueda soñar la filosofía.

We had arrived in a strange country to start our lives over again, and every possession that we acquired from that moment forward would reference this new existence. Indeed, we had brought nothing at all from our old lives, except each other. But that, I believed, would surely be enough.

You can hurt me if you like, I whispered, closing my eyes, thinking that he might slap me hard, drive his fist into my stomach, break my nose. Why would you want that? he asked, his tone betraying an innocence that believed his beauty. So I'll know that I'm alive.

A vida é fácil de narrar, mas atordoante de se praticar. Uma História de Solidão

Once one becomes a false self, one ceases to exist psychologically.

We are not material beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

Where there had only been fearful emptiness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ there is now unfolding a wealth of vitality. This is not a homecoming since this home had never before existed. It is the discovery of home. —ALICE MILLER

The French novelist Léon Bloy once said, "There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; pain must be in order for them to be.

Our sun is less than halfway through its life. It formed 4.5 billion years ago, but it's got 6 billion more years before the fuel runs out. It

Few of us are equipped to cope with the complexity and dazzling variety of twenty-first-century existence.

I find no evidence for believing that I matter any more than any other human being who ever existed or who ever will exist. Nor does any of them matter more than I do. We're elements in a process that began in the dim past and will develop through who knows what kind of future.

I am I." "Tat tvam asi.

Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.

But I thought you were dead,' I put in. 'Mors janua vitae,' he smiled.