Quotes About Existence

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.

Everyone supposedly knows from this world what greatness is. However, not everybody realizes that we actually live in such a world.

Happy life is a myth only struggle is the truth.

Life is given to live, not survive.

People are much more likely to be interested in things they can't have, so you may be able to persuade people to vote by questioning whether that right will always exist.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.

A vida é um sopro.

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Be — don't try to become

You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.

I breathed in forbidden life.

Non ho alcun preciso sentimento nei riguardi della società, di Dio e dell'uomo, però con tanta maggiore forza amo la vita, la fede e l'amore.

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Instauro brechas e vãos. O mundo é uma constelação de espadas regirantes e todas as manhãs, esta pergunta me assalta: "Como sobreviver?

We think rightly or wrongly about prayer according to the conception we have in our minds of prayer. If we think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows ceaselessly, and breathing continues ceaselessly; we are not conscious of it, but it is always going on. We are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect joint with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.

If we were never depressed, we would not be alive—only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation.

We are not made for brilliant moments, but we have to walk in the light of them in ordinary ways.

É preciso partir de um profundo ateísmo para se chegar à ideia de Deus.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Nature is the shape in which the man of higher Cultures synthesizes and interprets the immediate impressions of his senses. History is that from which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

There are no 'men-in-themselves' such as the philosophers talk about, but only men of a time, of a locality, of a race, of a personal cast, who contend in battle with a given world and win through or fail, while the universe around them moves slowly on with a godlike unconcern. This battle is life — life, indeed, in the Nietzschean sense, a grim, pitiless, no-quarter battle of the Will-to-Power.

Will and loneliness are at bottom the same.