Quotes About Existence

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

Les gens ne sont pas bons, mais la bonté existe et il y a des gens qui l'attrapent.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

One can enjoy existence, not life.

To be immortal and then die.

Mais puisque je ne peux pas m'arracher à l'objectivité qui m'écrase, ni à la subjectivité qui m'exile, puisqu'il ne m'est pas possible de m'élever jusqu'à l'être, ni de tomber dans le néant, il faut que j'écoute. Il faut que je regarde autour de moi plus que jamais… Le monde… Mon semblable… Mon frère… »

To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings.

So, when people say that after the end of the representation of God there is no God, they remain within metaphysics, which presupposes that there could be something that gives itself as representation. They miss the point.

Evil is in the existent as its innermost possibility of refusing existence

I wanted to tell you this, too: consciousness is a bad thing. Consciousness is a dead thing. Free yourselves from consciousness! It is high time. All that is needed is to strip off this garment: nothing very difficult about that. Tear the skin from your body, for it is not a true skin, it is a cellophane tissue that blocks the pores, that asphyxiates. Peel the tissue off, peel it off.

People didn't make life, so they can't destroy it. Even if we were to wipe out every bit of life in the world, we can't touch the place life comes from. Whatever made the plants and animals and people spring up in the first place will always be there, and life will spring up again.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

I am condemned to be free.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is the fact.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, of what he might have.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Nothingness lies coiled at the heart of being like a worm