Quotes About Existence

Las situaciones de crisis favorecen, en el plano intelectual, este tipo de cuestionamiento: el sentido de la existencia individual depende en primer lugar del modo en que nos relacionamos con el otro.

the expression "beyond age" is meant simply to apply to the multiplicity of times present in each of us at every instant

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

something that locates them at a distance from aging and the passing time:

I age, therefore I live. I have aged, therefore I am.

Five minutes before his death, Monsieur de La Palisse was still alive.

Time is a freedom, age a constraint. The cat, apparently, does not know this constraint.

Out of sight, out of body, there is nothing, there is no longer anything. And the words that humans invented to make themselves believe there was something, first of all the word "death" itself, fraught with terror and hope, only conceal the nothingness.

Often, as I reflected on this story, it seemed to me a kind of image of my own life—the life of a man who gorged himself on pessimism, believing he would find in it a means to a dazzling and meteoric existence, loving his own despair until the day he realized—too late—that he could no longer emerge from it, and that he had thus fallen into the trap of his own enchantments.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

it is impossible for our life to be put on hold, for whatever is happening in the moment is our life.

And I see that all is vanity and vexation of spirit under the sun,64 that the only good is to love God with all one's heart and to be poor in spirit here on earth.

Il y a autant de mondes différents qu'il y a de vies dans l'univers ; mon monde à moi a commencé le jour où tu es né, au moment où je t'ai tenu dans mes bras.

every moment is forever

Hast du schon mal das Gefühl gehabt dass die Welt dich im Stich läst,den Eindruck dsas das Zimmer indem du dich befindest immer kleiner wird,die Überzeigung das deine Kleider über Nacht gealtert,dass dein Bild in jedem Spiegel dein Elend reflektiert & dass dir das Gefühl zu glauben das dich nichts und niemand liebt & das du nichts liebst & das dieses Nichts die Leere deiner Existenz ist?

les années ne passent qu'en apparence.Les moments les plus simples sont ancrés en nous à jamais

Och så länge han tänker på mig, finns jag.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

there's no solution, because there's no problem

Het verlangen, de pijn van het gemis, het drama, dat was wat ik herkende als echt en waar. De rust, de gelijkmatigheid van het dagelijks bestaan, het gewone, daar keek ik op neer. Voor mij niet de verdoving die leven heet, dat lauwwarme voortbestaan in de hoop dat je zonder al te veel problemen oud wordt en doodgaat.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.