Quotes About Existence

As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going

Una piscina. Una bahía rocosa. Una parcela vacía. Un faro. Una torre. Estas cosas son reales y no lo son. Existen y no existen.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.

The body did not exist separate from the soul because the soul didn't exist.

Death, as I was beginning to understand it, was not the same thing here as back across the border.

What, if anything, might have made a difference, or if it was always going to happen like this. In this universe. On this day.

When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit

You tell yourself this is no less or more real than bowling at Chipper's.[...] That this moment is the same as every other moment, that it makes no difference to the atoms, to the air, to the creature whose walls breathe all around you.

Now he would inhabit the very center of corridors. He would put no hand to any surface. He would believe like a ghost that knew if it made contact with anyone or anything its touch would slide through and that creature would then know that it existed in a state of purgatory.

What a nothing you made out of the world you were given.

I did not feel as if I were a person but simply a receiving station for a series of transmissions.

But by then, whenever this was, the Strange Bird did not want to live, or did not know she could live, and that was the same thing in the end.

Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they multiply the number of mankind.

We all live in a kind of continuous dream," I told him. "When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we've taken as reality.

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

It is well known that, at the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, African servitude existed in all the States that were parties to that compact, unless with the single exception of Massachusetts, in which it had, perhaps, very recently ceased to exist.

The most influential author for me is Teilhard de Chardin, the French anthropologist and theologian. He believed, as I do, that the world is evolving toward a pleroma or fullness. Each human act contributes to this grand evolution and therefore does not cease to exist when it is completed.

The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence reveals that the horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist; therefore, the non-inherent existence of the horns of a rabbit is not an emptiness. An emptiness is not understood through realizing the mere non-existence of an object; it is known through comprehending in an existent object the absence of the quality of inherent or objective existence.

we are haunting ourselves in the present from the past and the future via the ghost and the alien.

My history has been that of a soul struggling into the conviction of its own existence. —FREDERIC MYERS, Fragments of Inner Life

What could I say? That I didn't care about living? That with every day of life more and more is being subtracted from less and less? Minus this second. Minus this second. That I was tired of collecting the millions of minutes, killing the idle thousands of hours?

There was a herebefore and there will be a hereafter. Nothing in the universe, including the universe itself, can terminate entirely.

Qué podía decir?¿Que me daba igual la vida?¿Que cada día me quitan más y más y me quedo con menos y menos? Un segundo menos; un segundo menos...¿Que estaba cansado de coleccionar millones de minutos de pasar miles de horas muertas?¿Que los últimos años, esperando el Alzheimer o un cáncer, no son dorados sino de latón?