Quotes About Existence

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

Et je respirais délicieusement la fraîcheur saine de ce matin; je me baignais et me retrempais dans cette pureté-la: c'était une impression de bien-être physique d'une intensité extraordinaire: c'était comme une ivresse d'exister... Etrange rajeunissement que le grand matin apporte toujours aux sens dans les pays du soleil, et qui s'est peut-être rien, après tout, rien qu'une sensation fausse et un mirage de vie...

Il n'y a pas de Dieu, il n'y a pas de morale, rien n'existe de tout ce qu'on nous a enseigné à respecter; il y a une vie qui passe, à laquelle il est logique de demander le plus de jouissance possible, en attendant l'épouvante finale qui est la mort.

Que me terrassant aient vécu, plus haut et clair que nous ne vivons, ceux qui furent à peine et redeviennent si peu.

Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.

The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.

Où sont cachés les stigmates du pire quand la vie courante nous contraint chaque jour à renaître à la banalité écoeurante et splendide ?

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.

We are not physical beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a physical experience.

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Man is the one creature on Earth who knows he will die, and that is an appalling intellectual burden.

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.

As Eternity has reckoned There's a lifetime in a second

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.

Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever.