Quotes About Existence

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I.

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultn after Sultn with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.

We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.

Siempre las flores vigilaron la muerte porque siempre los hombres incomprensiblemente supimos que su existir dormido y gracioso es el que mejor puede acompañar a los que murieron sin ofenderlos con soberbia de vida sin ser más vida que ellos Jorge Luis Borges

Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",

All beings are primarily Buddhas," can be called the primary statement of the essence of Buddhism. According to scholars of religion, religion means the completion of the individual as the Whole.

What we call the source of human personality—the True Self—is said to be this kind of eternal existence, yet it does not exist outside the living body. The realization of this fact is the essence of the meditation type of religion. At the same time, it is the way of human self-realization in Rinzai Zen.

However, this Land of Lotus Blossoms does not exist outside us.

Soku is the most suitable kind of breathing for those of us who sit in meditation. What kind of breathing is it? It is described as the breath coming in and going out without any break, as if existent and yet non-existent. This description of soku is not complete, but I am sure it corresponds to the lower abdominal breathing (tanden-soku) discussed earlier.

Is this love reality Or a dream? I cannot know, When both reality and dreams Exist without truly existing.

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

Dünya deÄŸiÅŸir, ve hep ayn? kal?r.

Pero ¿es suficiente creer en el amor si uno no cree en la vida?

Jakie to ma znaczenie, ?e zostaÅ'eÅ› poczÄ™te przez przypadek bÄ…d? przez omyÅ'kÄ™ - czy Å›wiat, w którym znale?liÅ›my siÄ™, nie powstaÅ' przez przypadek czy przez omyÅ'kÄ™?

Non è vero che non credi all'amore, mamma. Ci credi tanto da straziarti perché ne vedi così poco, e perché quello che vedi non è mai perfetto. Tu sei fatta d'amore. Ma è sufficiente credere all'amore se non si crede alla vita?

myÅ›lÄ™, ?e to ludzie stworzyli Boga, a nie na odwrót. MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e ludzie wymyÅ›lili go z samotnoÅ›ci, bezsilnoÅ›ci, rozpaczy. Czyli po to, by da? odpowied? na zagadkÄ™ egzystencji, aby zÅ'agodzi? nierozwiÄ…zywalne pytania, które ?ycie rzuca nam w twarz... Kim jesteÅ›my, skÄ…d przybywamy, dokÄ…d idziemy.

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Surprising condition, this, of our existence! To live is to feel ourselves fatally obliged to exercise our liberty, to decide what we are going to be in this world. Not for a single moment is our activity of decision allowed to rest. Even when in desperation we abandon ourselves to whatever may happen, we have decided not to decide.