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Quotes About Existence

La incomunicación es la mejor manera para que algo que existía deje de existir.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.
~ Alberto Fuguet
Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.
~ Alberto Manguel
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
~ Alberto Manguel
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
~ Alberto Moravia
This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.
~ Alberto Moravia
the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.
~ Alberto Moravia
Gli uomini confondono ciò che ha bisogno di uno scopo per giustificare se stesso, con il lirismo che non ha bisogno di uno scopo, perché è di là da ogni scopo;..
~ Alberto Savinio
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.
~ Alberto Villoldo
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
~ Albom, Mitch
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.
~ Albom, Mitch
They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.
~ Aldo Leopold
There will always be pigeons in books and in museums, but these are effigies and images, dead to all hardships and to all delights. Book-pigeons cannot dive out of a cloud to make the deer run for cover, or clap their wings in thunderous applause of mast-laden woods. Book-pigeons cannot breakfast on new-mown wheat in Minnesota, and dine on blueberries in Canada. They know no urge of seasons; they feel no kiss of sun, no lash of wind and weather. They live forever by not living at all.
~ Aldo Leopold
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
~ Aldous Huxley
I am I, and I wish I weren't.
~ Aldous Huxley
There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.
~ Aldrich Ames
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
~ Aleister Crowley
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
~ Aleister Crowley
Dile que los suspiros del mar Humedecen las únicas palabras Por las que vale la pena vivir
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Siempre estuve enamorada de gente que no existe y aquí estás vos, hoy…». «Amas en mí a alguien que no existe»,
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
porque yo no pedí nacer en forma de signo de interrogación
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Ella es una prueba más de que la libertad absoluta de la criatura humana es horrible.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
she undresses in the paradise of her memory she is unaware of the fierce fate of her visions she fears not knowing how to name what does not exist
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Tengo miedo y no puedo vivir en este mundo y lo quiero, claro que lo quiero, pero no sé cómo se hace.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik