Quotes About Existence

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.

The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.

Who are we without our memories?

One day blurs into the next, one week is indistinguishable from another. Their existence consists of waiting for the weekend, then waiting for retirement, and then waiting for death.

La morte ha tante facce, è una presenza anche quando non lascia dietro di se un corpo inerte.

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

Mo?e i prawda, ?e postawa, jak? zajmuje ka?dy z nas wobec tego, co ogromne, co zdaje si? nienaruszalne, niewiele mówi. Ale przynajmniej wyja?nia co? w tak drobnej kwestii, jak pytanie o to, kim, do diab?a, jestem.

Ni un mar, entonces, ni un canal, ni el camino hacia la riqueza. Tal vez ni siquiera un río, sino más bien un estuario. Es decir, resumiendo, un cúmulo de malentendidos, una suma de equivocaciones, un error perpetuo expresado sobre el agua. Por una derivación impensada de tantas y tantas fallas, existe la ciudad de Buenos Aires. Y existimos los que la habitamos.

It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very distinct line, the line between speculating about the existence of a metaphysical plane of some sort and climbing aboard for the ride. I knew I had let go of my sanity. It was terrifying. I only did it because my fear of what was happening to my body had become greater than my fear of holding on to rational beliefs.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced. And everything has more than one definition.

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other.

Cats come and go without ever leaving.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

He had no other life and no other knowledge; he knew that he could not live anywhere now because in his mind, slyly, there was nothing but horror.

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?

I don't change. It's not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn't real." Indicating

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.

Technically the barge's hull was only partly existent in reality and therefore couldn't be torn open if it hit a rock. But Kai didn't want to end up arguing with a barge determined that it had been hulled and needed to sink; the canal was too deep for that.

Reality, with all its attendant complexities--i.e., other people--was inescapable...

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth ... is that nobody gets over anything.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.