Quotes About Existence

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned.

Life is a miraculous process, and you just arent calling it that. Youre calling it 'Tuesday'.

Don't worry about the past and the future. This moment needs your attention, this is where your life exists.

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

Divine days fall like water from a cataract, and I had not learned yet the mortal trick of counting them.

Seit Hunderten von Generationen war ich nun schon auf der Erde - und war doch immer noch ein Kind.

Nothing,' I said. 'Air.' 'Those are not the same,' he said. 'Nothing is empty void, while air is what fills all else. It is breath and life and spirit, the words we speak.

He does not mean it does not hurt. He does not mean we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

I am made of memories. The memories come, and come. We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.

When I was born, the name for what I was did not exist.

all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.

Ma in un'esistenza solitaria, sono rari i momenti in cui un'altra anima si fonde con la tua, così come le stelle sfiorano la terra una volta all'anno. Una tale costellazione era stato lui per me.

When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist

Have you no more memories?' 'I am made of memories.

We are all there, goddess and mortal, and the boy who was both.

He says, it will be all right. He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within.

Je n'aurais pas été honnête de regretter ce qui m'avait donné la vie.

My father has never been able to imagine the world without himself in it.

Und wie lautete dieser Gedanke? Dass mein ganzes Leben bisher aus trüben und tiefen Wassern bestanden hatte, aber dass ich nicht Teil dieser dunklen Fluten war. Ich war ein Geschöpf, das darin lebte.

mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.