Quotes About Existence

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

La distinción entre pasado, presente y futuro es sólo una ilusión.

Place this salt in water and bring it here tomorrow morning. The boy did. Where is that salt? his father asked? I do not see it. Sip here. How does it taste? Salty, father. And here? And there? I taste salt everywhere. It is everywhere, though we see it not. Just so, dear one, the Self is everywhere, within all things, although we see it not. There is nothing that does not come from it. It is the truth; it is the Self supreme. You are that, Shvetaketu. You Are That.

In short, the fossil record is perfectly compatible with the supposition that at some time between eight and six million years ago, at the north end of the Rift Valley where the most ancient hominid remains have been found, one section of the l. c. a. population found itself living in a watery environment and—whether by choice or under duress—began to adapt to a semi-aquatic existence.

Oh, of course I'd be BREATHING all the time I was doing those things, Aunt Polly, but I wouldn't be living. You breathe all the time you're asleep, but you aren't living. I mean living—doing the things

Lo más importante de esta vida era que moríamos. Morían todas las personas que iban al mercado, y todas las que vivían dentro de las casas. También morían las señoras que les daban de comer a los cisnes, en Sidney.

Estoy y estuve en muchos ojos. Yo solo soy memoria y la memoria que de mí se tenga.

esto pasa desde que yo tengo memoria.

Tal vez los actos quedan escritos en el aire y ahí los leemos con unos ojos que no nos conocemos.

El amor no existe. Existe sólo un mundo que trabaja, que va, que viene, que gana dinero, que usa reloj, que cuenta los minutos y los centavos y acaba podrido en un agujero, con una piedra encima que lleva el nombre del desdichado.

I am not a cosmic orphan.

Some things exist only because they're talked about.

A tökéletesség nem a mi világunkhoz tartozik. Más, mint a mi világunk, vagy máshonnan ered.

Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.

For him [Kafka], the most tormenting thing about his notion of marriage must have been its ruling out the possibility of one's ever becoming so small as to be able to vanish: one has to be there.

Slepilo je oružje protiv vremena i prostora; naš život je jedno jedino, ogromno slepilo, izuzev ono malo stvari koje saznajemo zahval?uju?i našim si?ušnim ?ulima – si?ušnim kako po njihovoj suštini tako i po njihovom domašaju. Vladaju?i princip u kosmosu jeste slepilo. Ono omogu?ava naporedno postojanje stvari koje bi bile nemogu?e kad bi videle jedna drugu.

Slumbering in every human being lies an infinity of possibilities, which one must not arouse in vain. For it is terrible when the whole man resonates with echoes and echoes, none becoming a real voice.

I've nothing, am nothing, shall be nothing, and yet I take nothing.

Time is a continuum whence there is one escape only. By closing the eyes to it from time to time, it is possible to splinter it into those fragments with which alone we are familiar.

Any life is laughable if one knows it well enough. It is something serious and terrible if one knows it even better.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.