Quotes About Existence

No somos únicamente «escoria química» pues que, por ejemplo, el comportamiento general de nuestro planeta, nuestra estrella y nuestra galaxia depende de una magnitud física emergente, pero fundamental: el conocimiento que hay en dicha escoria.

People are significant in the cosmic scheme of things; and The Earth's biosphere is incapable of supporting human life.

This is the cosmic significance of explanatory knowledge – and hence of people, whom I shall henceforward define as entities that can create explanatory knowledge.

Solipsism, the theory that only one mind exists and that what appears to be external reality is only a dream taking place in that mind, cannot be logically disproved.

The idea that there could be beings that are to us as we are to animals is a belief in the supernatural.

once the existence of facts was denied then everything was a lie.

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

Minos says I'm nothing more than Nothing. Can Nothing take a form and call it me? But nothing is ever what it seems. Watch Nothing laugh. See Nothing cry. Hear Nothing scream.

There are many days I wonder - why me? Why was I born into this family? This body? This time? This land? This space? Did nature play a joke or simply misplace the instructions about who I was meant to be?

Tennessee Williams: 'Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

Each breath of air a world

La vida tiene una dimensión interior, con historias que no se materializan en la realidad, pero que no por ello dejamos de vivir.

Qué relación guardas con el tiempo cuando lo tienes contado?

Al fin y al cabo, apenas lo conocía. Qué más daba, sencillamente se limitaba a vivir uno de esos momentos tan escasos en los que el mañana no importa; en los que solo la fuerza del presente decide nuestra vida.

La curiosidad delimita el mundo de los vivos del de las sombras.

Minutos que uno se graba en la memoria en el momento mismo en que los vive. Segundos que son nuestra futura nostalgia.

La auténtica medida de la vida es el recuerdo.

Et il est compliqué de vivre avec un coeur qui ne bat que de temps à autre.

the fact that he'd never before seen her in the evening. He was just short of being astounded that she could exist at this hour. He must have been the type who thought that beauty gets put in a box at night. But it couldn't be true, no, because there she was, facing him.

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.

The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head. It is about simple awareness—awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water."

Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being.