Quotes About Existence

Worship is either something "given", divine worship is fore-ordained—or it does not exist at all.

A functionary is trained. Training is defined as being concerned with some one side or aspect of man, with regard to some special subject. Education concerns the whole man; an educated man is a man with a point of view from which he takes in the whole world. Education concerns the whole man, man capax universi, capable of grasping the totality of existing things.

Man is not happy by virtue of his being. Rather, his whole existence is determined precisely by the non possession of ultimate gratification.

What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech

In the end, there's always this city. As long as it exists, I don't believe that I, or for that matter, anyone, can be mesmerized or blinded by romantic tragedy.

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The more invisible something is, the more certain it's been around, and the more obviously it's everywhere.

In the afterlife, the pain that kills here no doubt continues.

If Meditations is antiquity, it is we who are the ruins.

Your life is a sheer gift.

Il poeta, ripeto, è il mezzo di cui la lingua si serve per esistere. O, come ha detto il mio amato Auden, è colui in cui e per cui la lingua vive.

This, presumably, means that we are now in league with life.

There's something bigger in the world than us, a thing that warms us, though it doesn't warm itself

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Love is a friendship set to music.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Full circle, from to tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come

I don't think people are really seeking the meaning of Life. I think we're seeking an experience of being alive…we want to feel the rapture of being alive

You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.

Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you're alive and its spectacular.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider's nature. It's instinctive beauty. How much of the beauty of our own lives is about the beauty of being alive?

The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We are not going to change it.