Quotes About Existence

todo viaja lentamente hacia su difuminación en medio de nuestras aceleraciones inútiles y nuestros retrasos ficticios, y sólo la última vez es la última.

Passara anos a duvidar se eu estava morto e a desejar que estivesse vivo, e o seu desejo vira-se recompensado. Agora, pelo contrário, segundo me parecia, não queria saber se eu permanecia na terra ou se saía disparado dela. Tinha sido em vida, aquando do meu regresso, que deixara de existir. Não se prescinde de um fantasma, pois nunca está cumprido; de um marido desnecessário, derrotado, ensimesmado e sombrio, sim.

horrible que la gente que uno conoce se muera, aunque la conozca poco, no se comprende que ya no exista quien ha existido.

contemplando transcurrir el transcurrido tiempo.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bur ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

Anlam aramaktan ya da bir anlam olduÄŸunu zannetmekten daha kötü bir ÅŸey yoktur. Vard?r asl?nda, daha da beteri vard?r: bir ÅŸeyin, önemsiz bir ayr?nt?n?n bile olsa anlam?n?n bize, eylemlerimize, amac?m?za ya da iÅŸlevimize baÄŸl? olduÄŸuna inanmak; iradenin ve kaderin, hatta her ikisinin girift bir bileÅŸiminin var olduÄŸuna inanmak.

La única forma de evitar el futuro es pertenecer al pasado, quedarse atrás en la oscuridad de la inexistencia.

Qué podían saber los demás dioses, que por miedo a la muerte habían renunciado a la vida hacía tanto tiempo?

Qué necios aquellos que aún creen que nuestra existencia carnal no está planificada desde el nacimiento hasta la muerte, incluso en los más nimios detalles... Qué necios aquellos que, aun habiéndose enfrentado a los avatares de la vida, todavía creen en la casualidad.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

For only they can sense life who stand often on the verge of it, only they whose lives are not governed by the fear of death.

I am not the lonely human, plunked down on earth to aimlessly wander. I am a part of that earth and not going anywhere- just like the spider up in the corner, the dust on the sill, and the cat I buried in the backyard. -Jamaica Ritcher.

There are two great days in a person's life—the day we were born and the day we discover why." —William Barclay

Is not life more than food, and the body than clothing?

The person who lived an entirely private life, Aristotle said, was either a beast or a god.

We are not dead!" He could hear the smile, even in her answering yell. "Certainly we are. It is only that our bodies have not yet learned the truth.

To me, God is a name that humans give to all that is. Experientially, it is whatever is left over when the delusion of the self is taken away.

I want to hold my breath for as long as it takes. I want to stop breathing just long enough to know what it would be like to be totally sitll. Like being a cough away from death. Not really there- not really here.

Because they are living creatures and that means they have to work to stay alive. Staying alive always has a dark side.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

I like reality. It tastes like bread.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt in God.

This horror and all these useless gestures, this grotesque adventure is ours. We must live it. Death is absurd also.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it