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Quotes About Existence

Nothing is innocent, and nothing is insignificant, it's all a big endless puzzle.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Obsession is, in any case, the premonition of the existence of an individual language, an irreproducible language through the attentive use of which we will be able to uncover the truth. We must follow this premonition into regions that to others might seem absurd and mad. I don't know why this language of truth sounds angelic to some, while to others it changes into mathematical signs or notations. But there are also those to whose whim it speaks in a very strange way.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
zrozumia?am, ?e smutek jest wa?nym s?owem w definicji ?wiata. Le?y u podstaw wszystkiego, jest pi?tym ?ywio?em, kwintesencj?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Ludzie my?l?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? zwierz?ta, ni? rosliny, a tym bardziej - ni? rzeczy. Zwierzeta przeczuwaj?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? ro?liny i rzeczy. Ro?liny ?ni?, ?e ?yj? bardziej intensywnie ni? rzeczy. A rzeczy trwaj?, i to trwanie jest bardziej ?yciem ni? cokolwiek innego.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Nie ma tu nikogo, Bóg stworzy? ?wiat i umar? z wysi?ku.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
In reality, movement doesn't exist. Like the turtle in Zeno's paradox, we're heading nowhere, if anything we're simply wandering into the interior of a moment, and there is no end, nor any destination.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
People think they live more intensely than animals, than plants, and especially than things. Animals sense that they live more intensely than plants and things. Plants dream that they live more intensely than things. But things last, and this lasting is more alive than anything else.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
On a Wednesday in January, at seven in the morning, it's plain to see that the world was not made for Man, and definitely not for his comfort or pleasure.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
I realized that sorrow is an important word for defining the world. It lies at the foundation of everything, it is the fifth element, the quintessence.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Reality has grown old and gone senile; after all, it is definitely subject to the same laws as every living organism—it ages.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
?wiat móg? powsta? tylko dlatego, ?e Bóg go opu?ci?. Najpierw by?o co?, a potem tego zabrak?o. To jest ?wiat. ?wiat ca?y jest brakiem.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
the world itself demands to be narrated, and only then does it truly exist, only then can it flourish fully. But also that by telling the story of the world, we are changing the world. That is why God created the letters of the alphabet, that we might have the opportunity to narrate to him what he created. Reb Mordke always chuckled at this. "God is blind. Did you not know that?" he would say. "He created us that we would be his guides, his five senses.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
To my mind, Death should be followed by the annihilation of matter. That would be the best solution for the body. Like this, annihilated bodies would go straight back into the black holes whence they came. The Souls would travel at the speed of light into the light. If such a thing as the Soul exists.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Learning intuitively, we will immediately notice the deterministic necessity of the existence of all things. Everything that is necessary cannot be otherwise.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It's not about whether God exists or not. It's not like that. To believe, or not to believe, that is the question.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
La morte implica la privazione del diritto al movimento, perché la vita è movimento. Il corpo ucciso smette di muoversi. L'uomo è un corpo.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
?wiat si? sko?czy?, cho? zatrzyma? pozory trwania. Tak wygl?da prawdziwy koniec.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Man harnesses his suffering to time. He suffers as a result of the past and extends his suffering into the future. In this way he creates despair.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
We believe we are free, and that God will forgive us. Personally I think otherwise. Finally, transformed into tiny quivering photons, each of our deeds will set off into Outer Space, where the planets will keep watching it like a film until the end of the world.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Cz?owiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, ?e go widzisz, ale dlatego, ?e to on na ciebie patrzy.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.
~ Olga Tokarczuk