Quotes About Existence

If your life was lonely, then your death is, too. You will dig your own grave and die as you lived.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling stands out in my mind as the most significant innovative novel since Ulysses and The Waves . Marguerite Young has added epic grandeur to the philosophical novel. Every page gleams with the poetry of existence.

But just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there. And just because you don't remember something doesn't mean you don't miss it. And just because you are used to something doesn't mean it's normal" -Ruby

Better, I thought, never to have been born than this; brought out of nothingness, to labour and strive and back into nothingness again; a bit of fungus on the surface of a splinter of a dying star.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

Meaning is not in things but in-between them.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

that a highly developed purpose and the will to live are among the prime raw materials of human existence. I became convinced that these materials may well represent the most potent force within human reach.

Everything achieves reality insofar as it is conditioned by, or participates in, a pure idea.

A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.

Reality is not, as we imagine it to be, difficult and painful. It is always only just as it is: suchness.

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Truth is discovered, not invented. It exists independent of anyone's knowledge of it. (Gravity existed prior to Newton.)

Rather, it is the ontological shadowland of "nonhuman others" that must be vindicated. In this quasi-theology, to enter the state of domination/damnation we needn't act to evil effect, deliberately or otherwise. Our "knowledge" is sufficient to condemn us. "Modern science" itself is the source of the evil taint. To know is to be guilty of dominating what is known.

the sacrifice of the village of Altavilla, shelled out of existence because it might have contained Germans.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.

life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.

Wittgenstein says in the Tractatus: 'Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is' (§ 6.44). 1 believe that a certain feeling of amazement that anything should exist at all, was sometimes experienced by Wittgenstein, not only during the Tractatus period, but also when I knew him.4 Whether this feeling has anything to do with

The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.

To be alive is to be burning