Quotes About Existence

For years now he'd believed he had no further urgent business with this world, or it with him. But it could be he was wrong.

wasn't in fact possible to strip life of its clutter for the simple reason that life was clutter.

It was from my mother that I learned reading was not a duty but a reward, and from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.

When you tossed pebbles down from the embankment, they believed in God. One

Does adult life amount to anything more than a futile attempt to invalidate the deepest truths we know about ourselves and our world?

most people are trapped in a solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt.

Neither beauty nor innocence nor the best of intentions can alter that which has always been.

Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.

Stone seems to bring into play an opposite quality of time. Stone, unlike man-made materials, is a primary material; therefore, it seems to existed not in a bracketed temporality but in a time that implies the infinite. Stone seems to have an otherworldly quality to it.

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself?

Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot or a conspiracy. Every hope is a plan for insurrection. Every glance of the eye is a threat. His very existence is a crime against the state!

a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.

How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the scene rose, thrusting themselves between the world and me....

This is life, new and strange; strange, because we fear it; new, because we have kept our eyes turned from it. This is life lived in cramped limits and expressing itself not in terms of our good and bad, but in terms of its own fulfilment. Men are men and life is life, and we must deal with them as they are; and if we want to change them, we must deal with them in the form in which they exist and have their being.

What man is is perhaps too much to be borne by man.

Yet he saw and felt but one life, and that one life was more than a sleep, a dream; life was all he had

To live, he had created a new world for himself, and for that he was to die.

Por vezes, penso que a esperança não pertence unicamente a cada um, que existe como um éter que se infiltra dentro de nós no momento do nascimento. in Meia-Noite ou O Princípio do Mundo.

Paraíso e Inferno são o mar e o céu (...) E tu és o horizonte

Sometimes I imagine I can feel the earth pause in its rotation, can feel it pause and look at us as if wondering, Just who the hell do you think you are?

HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.

If I'm dead, he murmured. Why does it hurt so much?

THE ONLY REASON FOR A MAN TO LIVE IS TO DIE