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Quotes About Existence

Todos los hombres son huevos, en cierto modo. Existimos, pero aún no hemos alcanzado la forma que es nuestro destino. Somos puro potencial, un ejemplo de lo por venir.
~ Paul Auster
Ya?amlar?m?z bizi al?p denetleyemeyece?imiz biçimde sürükler ve hemen hemen her ?ey de?i?ir. Biz ölünce her ?ey de ölür, ölüm her gün ya?ad???m?z bir ?eydir.
~ Paul Auster
cuando una persona es lo bastante afortunada para vivir dentro de una historia, para habitar un mundo imaginario, las penas de este mundo desaparecen. Mientras la historia sigue su curso, la realidad deja de existir.
~ Paul Auster
It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really have. And never really there.
~ Paul Auster
the closest man can come to the feeling of eternity is by living in the present
~ Paul Auster
The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in a restless, unmoored existence, and this lack of center had the effect of turning him into a perpetual outsider, a tourist of his own life.
~ Paul Auster
Lei ha una storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere in una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché, fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più
~ Paul Auster
Lei ha la storia, e quando una persona è abbastanza fortunata da vivere all'interno di una storia, da vivere in un mondo immaginario, i dolori di questo mondo svaniscono. Perché fino a quando la storia continua, la realtà non esiste più.
~ Paul Auster
Pour employer une expression qui m'a toujours plu, j'ai découvert que je vivais des jours empruntés.
~ Paul Auster
te encontraste cayendo por la fisura entre el mundo y la palabra, el abismo que separa la existencia humana de nuestra capacidad de entender o expresar la verdad de la vida, y por motivos que te siguen desconcertando, aquella súbita caída por el aire vacío y sin límites te inundó de una sensación de libertad y felicidad.
~ Paul Auster
God was nowhere, he said to himself, but life was everywhere, and death was everywhere, and the living and the dead were joined.
~ Paul Auster
Il n'y a pas qu'un seul monde. Il y en a plusieurs, et ils existent tous parallèlement les uns aux autres, mondes et antimondes, mondes et mondes fantômes, et chacun d'entre eux est rêvé ou imaginé ou écrit par un habitant d'un autre monde. Chaque monde est la création d'un esprit.
~ Paul Auster
Adesso poteva anche fare certe cose. Prima del 3 novembre sarebbe stato inconcepibile, ma il mondo irreale era molto più grande di quello reale, e c'era spazio abbondante per essere e non essere se stessi.
~ Paul Auster
Life can last just so long, you understand. Everything else is in the room, with darkness, with God's language, with screams. Here I am of the air, a beautiful thing for the light to shine on.
~ Paul Auster
Die Welt ist in meinem Kopf. Mein Körper ist in der Welt.
~ Paul Auster
Tu non vuoi cambiare il mondo, Archie, tu vuoi capirlo per trovare il modo di riuscire a viverci.
~ Paul Auster
isn't it intriguing that thought cannot exist without language, and since language is a function of the brain, we would have to say that language---the ability to experience the world through symbols---is in some sense a physical property of human beings, which proves that the old mind-body duality is so much nonsense, doesn't it? Adieu, Descartes. The mind and body are one.
~ Paul Auster
Em outras palavras: medo de morrer, o que em última análise não é outra coisa que não medo de viver
~ Paul Auster
For what does it mean to look at something, a real object in the real world, an animal, for example, and say that it is something other than what it is? It is to say that each thing leads a double life, at once in the world and in our minds, and that to deny either one of these lives is to kill the thing in both its lives at once.
~ Paul Auster
a lire belongs only to the person who lives it; life itself will claim the living; to live is to let live.
~ Paul Auster
La petite mort' and 'la grande mort' within ten seconds of each other—coming and going in the space of three short breaths.
~ Paul Auster
La única persona con la que sabía cómo comportarme era conmigo mismo; pero verdaderamente yo ya no era nadie, no estaba realmente vivo. Sólo era alguien que fingía estar vivo, un muerto que
~ Paul Auster
en ilginç olan da Sisifos Söyleni'nin ilk cümleleriydim: "Gerçekten ciddi olan tek bir felsefi sorun vard?r, o da intihard?r. Ya?am?n ya?amaya de?er olup olmad??? hakk?mda karar vermek felsefenin o temel sorununu cevaplamaktan ibarettir.
~ Paul Auster
una persona nerviosa y refunfuñona, demasiado angustiada por las minucias de la vida cotidiana para entender que la vida se te podía escapar antes de empezar a vivirla,
~ Paul Auster