Quotes About Existence

He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.

Why is life? Don't ask about it. Live it.

I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

Materialism is the metaphysics of those who refuse to be metaphysicians.

I have come too late into a world too old.

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light. (III, 3)

Le mal existe, mais pas sans le bien, comme l'ombre existe, mais pas sans la lumière. (III, 3) Evil exists, but not without the good, as the shadow exists, but not without the light.

D'ailleurs la mort est toujours là ; n'est-elle pas partout sous les pieds de l'homme, qui la rencontre à chaque pas dans cette vie ? L'eau, le feu, la terre, tout la lui offre sans cesse ; il la voit partout dès qu'il la cherche, il la porte à son côté.

Tu mourus plein d'espoir dans ta route infinie, Et te souciant peu de laisser ici-bas Des larmes et du sang aux traces de tes pas. Plus vaste que le ciel et plus grand que la vie, Tu perdis ta beauté, ta gloire et ton génie Pour un être impossible, et qui n'existait pas.

Mais quel bien fait le bruit, et qu'importe la gloire ? Est-on plus ou moins mort quand on est embaumé ? Qu'importe un écolier, sachant trois mots d'histoire, Qui tire son bonnet devant une écritoire, Ou salue en passant un marbre inanimé ? Être admiré n'est rien ; l'affaire est d'être aimé.

But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.

I [Nature] am called a mother, but I am a grave.

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

Mostly, I just waste my time.

If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste.

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.

To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

'Okja' I don't think would have been made if Netflix hadn't made it. That, to me, is a much bigger thing than whether someone watches it on a big screen or a phone. Because it simply wouldn't have existed otherwise.

I hate watches because of the concept of time.

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.