Quotes About Existence

All say, 'how hard it is that we have to die' -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

Live with no time-out.

Evil exists in us all, Torak. Some fight it. Some feed it. That's how it's always been.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

I'm dying, but so are you

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

All of the energy of existence is going to flow through you. You will be in thousands of planes of consciousness at once or beyond in nirvana or having a sandwich with a friend.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

To be immortal and then die

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.