Quotes About Existence

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.

The absolutes the eternitiesTheir outlying districtsAre not my themeI am hungry for life and for death alsoI know what I know and I write it.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Una civilización que niega a la muerte, acaba por negar a la vida.

Mil cosas solicitan a la vez nuestra atención y ninguna de ellas logra retenernos; así la vida se nos vuelve arena entre los dedos y las horas humo en el cerebro.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

My fellow man I do not care for. I often ask me, What's he there for? The only answer i can find Is, Reproduction of his kind.

I am tarred and feathered with Time.

Don't think too much. Descartes may come to existence when he thinks, but you perish and vanish when you think.

[The Indian] sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.... It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.

In religion the Future is behind us. In art the Present is the eternal.

At birth he enters the realm of dreams only to awaken to reality at death.

Oh, Star Maker, even if you destroy me, I must praise you. Even if you torture my dearest. Even if you torment and waste all your lovely worlds, the little figments of your imagination, yet I must praise you. For if you do so, it must be right. In me it would be wrong, but in you it must be right.

If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man's blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!

Either God is the universe, or he is the flavour of creativity pervading all things.

Thus and thus is the world. Seeing the depth, we shall see also the height, and praise both.

Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres, and has seemed to himself once and again to catch some phrase of it, or even a hint of the whole form of it. Yet he can never be sure that he has truly herd it, nor even that there is any such perfect music at all to be heard.

Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

Tida går, forteler dei. Men det er vi som går. Tida blir liggande att ho, og lat henne ligge.

Sometimes it's as if I'm composed of nothing but symptoms of illness, I am a phantom built out of pain.