Quotes About Existence

Any life, bad as it may be, is better than nothing. Better than terror and that frozen fear of death. It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

Cuando una se acostumbra al horror, éste deja de verse, por tanto de existir. El horror mismo lleva a perder las proporciones del horror.

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

Love last one single perfect moment; the rest is merely reminiscence of what has already happened, but the single moment can be enough to make sense of more than one life.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being.

There is an enormous difference between life and intelligent life.

What is the stuff that makes everything that is?" they asked. That this remains the defining question of modern particle physics serves to show that the value of a great question is that it keeps generating answers that, in turn, keep changing as our methods of inquiry change.

Lucretius wrote in The Nature of Things: Especially since this world is the product of Nature, the happenstance Of the seeds of things colliding into each other by pure chance In every possible way, no aim in view, at random, blind, Till sooner or later certain atoms suddenly combined So that they lay the warp to weave the cloth of mighty things: Of earth, of sea, of sky, of all species of living beings.

El rabino Kushner escribió en uno de sus libros: "Yo creo que no es a morir a lo que teme la gente. Algo más desconcertante y trágico que la muerte nos asusta. Tenemos miedo de no haber vivido nunca, de llegar al final de nuestros días sintiendo que nunca estuvimos realmente vivos, que nunca entendimos de lo que realmente trata la vida... No

There is no other reality than nature.

Yo soñé que soñaba. Y soñé que despertaba del segundo sueño, del sueño soñado y decía: "Ah, fue un sueño", y creía estar despierto. Quizá la vida sea eso, un sueño metido dentro de otro. Quizá la vida sea el tercer sueño concéntrico del que uno despierta cuando se muere.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

You will quickly be reduced to ashes and skeleton. And it may be you will have a name left you, and it may be not. And what is a name? Nothing but sound and echo.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.