Quotes About Existence

Die Welt ist nicht nur Geschehen, sondern auch Leben.

The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar. ANTONIO MACHADO

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I don't have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that's why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.

She's a manner of speaking. Even the flowers don't come back, or the green leaves. There are new flowers, new green leaves. There are other beautiful days. Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

Accept the universe As the gods gave it to you. If the gods wanted to give you something else They'd have done it. If there are other matters and other worlds There are.

I'm one of my sensations.

Even so, I'm somebody. I'm the Discoverer of Nature. I'm the Argonaut of true sensations. I bring a new Universe to the Universe Because I bring the Universe to itself.

Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Other times when I hear the wind blow I feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.

Night doesn't fall for my eyes But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes. Beyond my thinking and having any thoughts The night falls concretely And the shining of stars exists like it had weight.

Pensar incomoda como andar à chuva Quando o vento cresce e parece que chove mais.

I don't know what understanding myself is. I don't look inside. I don't believe I exist behind myself.

Sinto uma alegria enorme Ao pensar que a minha morte não tem importância nenhuma.

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly. And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

What does this think about that? Nothing thinks about anything. Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants? If it did, it would be people. . . Why am I worrying about this? If I think about these things, I'll stop seeing trees and plants And stop seeing the Earth For only seeing my thoughts... I'll get unhappy and stay in the dark. And so, without thinking, I have the Earth and the Sky.

A row of trees far away, there on the hillside. But what is it, a row of trees? It's just trees. Row and the plural trees aren't things, they're names.

Also at times, on the surface of streams, Water?bubbles form And grow and burst And have no meaning at all Except that they're water?bubbles Growing and bursting.

If science wants to be truthful, What science is more truthful than the science of things without science? I close my eyes and the hard earth where I'm lying Has a reality so real even my back feels it. I don't need reason — I have shoulderblades.

It's an already inside outside, The philosophers say it's the soul But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself In its way of existing.