Quotes About Existence

El mito es reflejo de la realidad".

Llevar un vientre entre las caderas es mero destino. Llevar una cabeza sobre los hombros es una responsabilidad.

Quien actúa de modo automático es esencia sin existencia".

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

What you see is what you see, but that is never everything. Sarajavo is Sarajevo whatever you see or don't see. America is America. The past and future exist without you. And what you don't know about me is still my life. What I don't know about you is still your life. Nothing at all depends on you seeing it or not seeing it. I mean, who are you? You don't have to see or know everything.

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.

It never ends, Pinya says. Every time, you think maybe this here is a different world, but it's all the same: they live, we die. So here it is again.

We are within our life and we stay there for as long as possible, that's our home. We need life. There is too much death already, and there is probably more coming our way.

What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.

I think it is about life. I think there is always more life than death. Those who lived are always alive for someone. Those who are alive remember life, not death. And when you are dead nothing happens. Death is nothing.

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.

No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

Hope sold, of course, and well; it was the corn syrup of existence, fast burning and addictive.

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant?

What would love be without mutually assured oblivion?

Kuka käsittää tämän maailman rakennusta? Ei ihmislapsi, joka on typerä ja tyhmä kuin määkivä jäärä. Mutta parasta ottaa päivä tultuansa, sallia sen mennä mentyänsä, käyköön sitten puuhun tai mäntyyn. Täällä ollaan vaan.

The thing (as one) no longer throws its shadow upon another thing; instead, it throws its shadow upon itself, thus becoming, at the same time, the thing and its shadow. When the sun is at its zenith, things are not simply exposed ("naked", as it were); they are, so to speak, dressed in their own shadows.

Aquel Dios del que había oído hablar, pero que, desde hacía largo tiempo, no se preocupaba de negar ni de reconocer, dedicado solamente a vivir como si no existiera, ahora, en ciertos momentos de abatimiento sin motivo, de terror sin peligro, le parecía oírlo gritar dentro de sí: Yo existo

I am living my death, little by little, each day.

There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.

But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

I acknowledge the privilage of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself, and simultaneously a part of the matrix of forces that brought it into being.