Quotes About Existence

Time and space, he thought. What a hodgepodge.

Tell me what you see vanishing and I Will tell you who you are —W. S. Merwin, "For Now

If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder.

Just because they don't hear the song (of the world) doesn't mean it's silent.

So you can remember everything about your life from the last seven years, but nothing before that? Not now, Carl. There must be something, Carl said, undeterred. I remember fighting the Romans at Masada, he said seriously. He didn't have to see Carl's face to recognise the shock that was there. That was seventy-three A.D ... ? Van Helsing shrugged. You asked.

He'd always found it vaguely depressing, and yet it shouldn't have mattered that the world was full of people he'd never know when he'd removed himself so completely from the world anyway. This

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

A life lived from the back seat, observed as it blured by. An indifferent life.

I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.

If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.

de que Dios existe, de que siempre ha existido. Lo veo aquí, en los ojos de la gente de este pasillo de desesperación. Ésta es la verdadera casa de Dios, aquí es donde los que han perdido a Dios vuelven a encontrarlo

A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by the hard, unyielding confines of the existence

Boys. . .didn't make a show of friendship. They felt no urge, no need. . .boys. . .treated friendship the way they treated the sun: it's existence undisputed, it's radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly

Los chicos, comprendió, se planteaban la amistad de la misma forma que el sol: daban por sentada su existencia y disfrutaban de su resplandor, pero nunca lo contemplaban directamente.

It would be an existence rife with difficulties... but of a pleasurable kind, difficulties they could take pride in, possess, value, as one would a family heirloom.

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed, its radian best enjoyed, not beheld directly. A Thousand Splendid Suns, 133

Under the circumstances the only honest answer an intelligent person can give to the question 'Is there a God?' is to say, 'I do not know.

Instead of relishing life, people merely existed. Such was the case with my family.

The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. is bound to be noticed.

Ask me what you wish; just do not ask me for reasons.

La vita può essere capita solo all'indietro, ma va vissuta in avanti.

The thought of death gives the earnest person the right momentum in life and the right goal toward which he directs his momentum

What is truth but to live for an idea?