Quotes About Existence

Who dreams so much, forgets to live

Qui rêve trop oublie de vivre.

Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.

This isnt life, we just exist.

To have nobody is to have not even yourself. Somebody loving you provides a certificate of existence. When a person feels alone, he can't exist without some small social fable.

Is there a life outside oneself? Is there a reality outside oneself?

What is our life: (Pause.) it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment?

Ognuno inchiodato al legno della sua esistenza a scontare la colpa che non commise e quella che commise.

Giorni miei Solo a sera m'è dato assistere alla deposizione della luce, quando la vita, ormai senza rimedio, è perduta. Mio convoglio funebre di ogni notte: emigrazione di sensi, accorgimenti delle ore tradite, intanto che lo spirito è rapito sotto l'acutissimo arco dell'esistenza: l'accompagna una musica di indicibile silenzio. Invece dovere ogni mattina risorgere sognare sempre impossibili itinerari.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time. Every memory, no matter how remote its subject, takes place 'Now,' at the moment it's called to the mind. The more something is recalled, the more the brain has a chance to refine the original experience. Because every memory is a re-creation, not a playback.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

To live as I understand it is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much more romantic and nomadic existence.

If there is a God, he thought, I'll speak directly to him when the time comes, and if there isn't a God I'll have to invent one, and I'll find a way to thank him for the way I feel when I watch her move.

Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?' he ventured. 'As humans we have much greater potential, of course,' His Holiness replied. 'But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness-in this way human and animal are equal.

As humans we have much greater potential, of course," His Holiness replied. "But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness—in this way human and animal are equal.

We are manifestations of the earth, the air, the water and the sun.

I am how I am because all this is how it is. Each a different aspect of the same reality.

Energy is not created or destroyed. Because consciousness is energy, it, too, is never destroyed. It changes form, yes, but it's always there and always has been there.

If there is a very strong connection, sometimes the same being can come back again and again.

We are connected to each other through innumerable lifetimes and in limitless ways.