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Quotes About Existence

Life in a box was unbearable. How did humans stand it?
~ Unknown
He will hardly remember that life happened to him.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
God's truth is life ?even the grotesque shapes of its foulest fire.
~ Patrick Kavanagh
Live, don't know how long, And die, don't know when; Must go, don't know where; I am astonished I am so cheerful.
~ Unknown
Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.
~ Patrick Marber
All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.
~ Unknown
The I is a concept that resists its own nullity as if life depended upon it.
~ Unknown
To be awake is to be available to torment, and this is the full complete meaning of life.
~ Unknown
Il existait à Paris des zones intermédiaires, des no man's land où l'on était à la lisière de tout, en transit, ou même en suspens.
~ Patrick Modiano
Mais, au bout d'un demi-siècle, les quelques personnes qui furent les témoins de vos débuts dans la vie ont fini par disparaître.
~ Patrick Modiano
Hutte répétait qu'au fond, nous sommes tous des "des hommes des plages" et que "le sable - je cite ses propre termes - ne garde que quelques secondes l'empreinte de nos pas".
~ Patrick Modiano
comme si l'hiver de cette année-là séparait les gens les uns des autres, brouillait et effaçait leurs itinéraires, au point de jeter un doute sur leur existence. Et il n'y a aucun recours. Ceux-là même qui sont chargés de vous chercher et de vous retrouver établissent des fiches pour mieux vous faire disparaître ensuite – définitivement.
~ Patrick Modiano
Tudo o que vivemos no dia a dia é marcado pelas incertezas do presente.
~ Patrick Modiano
No era de verdad yo misma más que mientras escapaba.
~ Patrick Modiano
Era mai possibile che l'incidente dell'altra notte avesse provocato una simile frattura nella mia esistenza, e che ormai ci fossero un prima e un dopo? Ho
~ Patrick Modiano
Il y a des etres mysterieux - toujours les memes - qui se tiennent en sentinelles a chaque carrefour de votre vie.
~ Patrick Modiano
Purposes are threads of continuity that we weave into the long-term view of our lives. Goals come and go, but purposes survive because they are long-term, they pertain to the why we exist part of our lives. They relate to how we perceive the theory of our lives.
~ Unknown
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him. And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?"
~ Patrick Ness
But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
~ Patrick Ness
Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
~ Patrick Ness
He was still alive. Which was the worst thing that could have happened.
~ Patrick Ness
He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.
~ Patrick Ness
But what is a dream...?...Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?
~ Patrick Ness
Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
~ Patrick Ness