Quotes About Existence

Either technology exists within time or time exists within technology.

In the end, respiration and burning are equivalent; the slight delay in the middle is what we know as life.

Regrettably these tapes still exist.

Blue believes the harmony to be motivated by self-interest. There is a resurgence of faith these days, a growing belief in organized religion, grace, damnation, heaven and hell. People treat each other kindly now, thinks Blue, because they hope to escape God's wrath. Blue does not believe in damnation and has trouble empathizing with those who do. In her fifty-two years, she has found no hard evidence, no scientific proof to convince her of God's existence. She considers herself an atheist.

I'm not dead.

she would always be, at the very best, a dewdrop on life's river bank.

That's what I wanted from the world, to feel nothing. To feel nothing and not be involved, for everything to stay comfortably outside myself and not get in. How did people survive all this knowledge of suffering in the world? How did they carry it around, day after day, and not go mad?

Here she was Stranger Woman, or the SEC rep. Not Marguerite Angelica Taishan, not Marghe. She wondered if that person existed anymore.

That was how kings were. If you were of no use, you didn't exist.

She wrapped her hands around the wooden bowel. This was real. This was stuff of life.

Stay in the world, she had said, and this was the world I had made.

Stay in the world, Aud. Stay alive inside. Promise me. Stay alive.

Civilizations are the summer noise of insects between two winters.

To deny that a "human nature" exists is the ideological trick the optimist employs to defend himself against history.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

A constant flow of news invades existence today, destroying the silence and peace of humble lives, without abolishing their tedium.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

Wir müssen das Leben darum bitten, uns vegetieren zu lassen, denn nur so können wir Blüten treiben.

Nichts was irgendeinem Wesen in irgendeiner Situation grundsätzlich möglich ist, ist von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung.

In order to avoid a manly confrontation with nothingness, man erects altars to progress.

Damit das Individuum interessant sei, muß die Ethik sein Leben komplizieren.