Quotes About Existence

Opening his eyes, gazing at the vastness above, below, and all around, J.D. inquired, "Do you believe in immortality?" as casually as if inquiring if she believed in free trade. "I don't know. Do you?" "I don't know either. I want terribly to believe that there's a chance for such happiness as this to be carried on somehow, somewhere, if not in this life, then in the next.

Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

For a little sould that cries oout aloud for continued personal existence for itseld and its beloved, there is no help. For the sould which know itself no more as a unit, but as part of the Universal Unit of which the Beloved also is part; which feels within itself the throb of the Universal Life; for that soul there is not death.

Thus idly busy rolls their world away

Human kind cannot bear very much reality'.

Our bodies are stardust; our lives are sunlight.

Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

volver a ver reverdecer la fe de ser y creer en crear y croar y croar ante todo ende o duende visiblemente real o inexistente

Nada ansío de nada, mientras dura el instante de eternidad que es todo, cuando no quiero nada.

El solo hecho de poseer un hígado y dos riñones ¿no justificaría que nos pasáramos los días aplaudiendo a la vida y a nosotros mismos? ¿Y no basta con abrir los ojos y mirar, para convencerse que la realidad es, en realidad, el más autentico de los milagros?

Ah, si yo hubiera sabido que la muerte es un país donde no se puede vivir!

Looking at Guy, Harriet laughed and said: 'Freedom is the recognition of necessity'.

Woman has the same spiritual dignity as man. Both of them have the same God, the same Teacher, the same Church. They breathe, see, hear, know, hope and love in the same way. Beings who have the same life, grace and salvation are called … to the same manner of being. Clement of Alexandria Tutor,

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Let's not kid ourselves, pain always exists, and there's no shilly-shallying that it is probably the essential part of life.…

Oluwapelumi dada

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.