Quotes About Existence

In the beat of a heart, the suck of a breath, you are the universe.

Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation…

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Vista dall'esterno, la mia esistenza era scheletrica; vista dall'interno ispirava quello che ispirano gli appartamenti il cui unico mobilio è una biblioteca sontuosamente stracolma di libri: l'ammirazione gelosa per chi non si sovraccarica del superfluo e trabocca del necessario

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

We are close to waking when we dream that we are dreaming.

Whoever sees life other than as a self-destroying illusion is himself still preoccupied with life. Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?

There are ideal series of events which run parallel with the real ones. They rarely coincide.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

La esencia de la enfermedad es tan oscura como la de la vida.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Der Sinnenrausch ist zur Liebe, was der Schlaf zum Leben.

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

The whole of the visible is incorporated in the invisible and the audible in the inaudible, and the tangible in the intangible. There is no doubt that everything that can be thought about is incorporated into everything that cannot be thought about.

Humanity is a comic role.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet

The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.

Si el biofísico y filósofo Pierre Lecomte du Noüy nos ha invitado a reflexionar sobre el hecho de que «en la escala de los seres, sólo el hombre realiza actos inútiles»,

You are a question to yourself. You've become a question to all those who meet you, those who know you (...). You doubt, at times, if you exist outside your own thoughts, outside your own head.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence

Hayat, dü?ünceleri tutan bir hapishanedir.