Quotes About Existence

There was a feeling, as you sat and ate your nice sandwich or had your tea, that you were on the slowly tipping edge of nothingness and might fall forward at any moment, and that if you did, it was possible that nothing would know you'd ever been there at all. Jim

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other.

How are you?" she asks. The world's most innocuous question, impossible to answer.

People interest me so much. They're such wonderful puzzles. Think of it. Half the time we've no idea what we're doing, but we live anyway.

All he had was the story of his life, which was as good as any other man's, and in the end it is all we have.

As mulheres querem provar que elas existem e a sua presença é mais importante que todas as crenças e juramentos deste mundo.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

Father continues to make the vulgar error," she said, "that to a woman, love is her whole existence.

Emotion was pressing hard on her chest, making it difficult for her to breathe. I don't need to breathe now, she thought. I've breathed all my life.

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

For the oppressors, "human beings" refers only to themselves; other people are "things." For the oppressors, there exists only one right: their right to live in peace, over against the right, not always even recognized, but simply conceded, of the oppressed to survival. And they make this concession only because the existence of the oppressed is necessary to their own existence.

A consciência é essa misteriosa e contraditória capacidade que tem o homem de distanciar-se das coisas para fazê-las presentes, imediatamente presentes.

no entiendo la existencia humana y la necesaria lucha por mejorarla sin la esperanza y sin el sueño.

To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it. Once named, the world in its turn reappears to the namers as a problem and requires of them a new naming,. Human beings are not built in silence,3 but in word, in work, in action-reflection.

Essa vida é uma viagem pena eu estar só de passagem

It's only life but I like it

I wished I had renounced the faith, taken a rosary in my hand, put a sectarian mark on my forehead, tied a sacred thread round my waist and seated myself on the bank of the Ganges so that I could wash the contamination of existence away from myself and like a drop be one with the river.

How slowly life moves when you're dead. Another day, another hour, another night in bed. I want to live awake. I've been sleeping. Sleepwalking.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

People see God every day; they just don't always recognize Him.

I know I was born and I know that I'll die The in between is mine I am mine

I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs.

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.