Quotes About Existence

No wonder Americans seemed crazy to everybody else--they were utterly alone in the vastness of this ridiculously immense land. They all skittered about, alighting and flying off again like frantic butterflies. Looking for--what? What were they looking for?

Carnal, rocks remember when they were mountains.' They stared at the rocks in the garden. 'And what do mountains remember?' 'When they were ocean floors.' Big Angel, Zen master.

Miguel Angel," he said, "It isn't hard to die. Everybody does it. Even flies do it. Everyone here is doing it. We're all terminal." He had a tear in his eye; Big Angel could see it brimming. "Your schedule is just different from mine.

I am in the earth and the earth is in me

It was 1965, and he felt he had already lived a hundred years.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

Si me dijeran: te quedan veinte años de vida, ¿qué te gustaría hacer durante las veinticuatro horas de cada uno de los días que vas a vivir?, yo respondería: dadme dos horas de vida activa y veinte horas de sueños, con la condición de que luego pueda recordarlos; porque el sueño sólo existe por el recuerdo que lo acaricia.

In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. If someone were to prove to me—right this minute—that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

A life without memory is no life at all

No es el amor quien muere, Somos nosotros mismos.

Ubrzo je nanovo utvrdio da je njegova egzistencija sa?injena od fragmenata koji se me?usobno ne uklapaju, i svaki pokušaj da im se utvrdi neki redosljed bio bi jednak samotnoj igri na sre?u.

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

Nada significamos como individuos. Nada como unidad. Formamos parte de un todo indivisible y eterno.

In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Was it possible to feel love with an empty mind? For if the mind was empty, then it was empty of love too.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

It's just that you reach a point where metaphors become indistinguishable from the things they represent. And the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. And it feels like being born

Everything may evaporate at any instant. Everything!' I said with surprising vehemence. 'You, me, the most rocklike personality since Calving Coolidge; death, destruction, despair may strike. To live your life assuming otherwise is insanity.

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand.

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

Noi solchiamo i meandri della storia. Noi siamo le ombre di cui le cronache non parleranno. Noi non esistiamo.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.