Quotes About Existence

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

Mais Drogo ignorait ce qu'était le temps.

Entretanto o tempo voava; sem reparar nos homens, passava aqui e ali pelo mundo, mortificando as coisas bonitas; e ninguém conseguia escapar-lhe, nem mesmo as crianças recém-nascidas, ainda desprovidas de nome.

Nothing can be produced out of nothing.

Time is the image of eternity.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

In brief, the Tree of Life is a compendium of science, psychology, philosophy and theology.

Life, the permission to know death.

Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.

The world and its history were to Nora like a ship in a bottle; she herself was outside and unidentified, endlessly embroiled in a preoccupation without a problem.

You Know what none of us know until we have died. You were dead in the beginning.

What do they find then, that this lover has committed the unpardonable error of not being able to exist—and they come down with a dummy in their arms. God's last round, shadow-boxing, that the heart may be murdered and swept into that quiet still place where it can sit and say: 'Once I was, now I can rest.

What do they find then, that this lover has committed the unpardonable error of not being able to exist—and they come down with a dummy in their arms. God's last round, shadow-boxing, that the heart may be murdered and swept into that still quiet place where it can sit and say: 'Once I was, now I can rest.

Now be still, now that you know what the world is about, knowing it's about nothing.

I put my hand on the poor bitch of a cow and her hide was running water under my hand, like water tumbling down from Lahore, jerking against my hand as if she wanted to go, standing still in one spot; and I thought, there are directions and speeds that no one has calculated, for believe it or not that cow had gone somewhere very fast that we didn't know of, and yet was still standing there.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

To think is to be sick...

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.

Izgleda da su ve?ne samo one ljubavi koje se ne doga?aju.

Ima smisla roditi se da bi se doživeo jedan...razgovor.