Quotes About Existence

Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.

My Existence is Uncomfortable for People

In order to live, I have to blind myself to my infinitesimal dimensions in this infinite universe.

Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo. I was not, I was, I am not, I don't care. It is the most common text found on Roman graves.

I was living, I thought I was content, I was told I was happy. I did a marvelous impression of a man not crushed by dread. Once I felt your warm breath on my neck, I was no longer invisible, you saw me, you always saw me. Me cogitas, ergo sum.

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

We live in the world when we love it.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake.

We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

And because I love this life, I know I shall love death as well. (#95)

There is no day nor night, nor form nor colour, and never, never a word. (#67)

For here rolls the sea, and even here lies the other shore waiting to be reached—yes, here is this everlasting present, not distant, not anywhere else.

In life the one becomes many. In death the many become one.

The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.

truth and falsehood mingle in life—and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration.

On death the many become one, in life the one becomes many.

the Creator will find it difficult to recognize it as a thing of spirit and a creature made in His own divine image.

When a man sleeps he is shut up within the narrow activities of his physical life. He lives, but he knows not the varied relations of his life to his surroundings, - therefore he knows not himself.