Quotes About Existence

But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope), ...

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

We never get anything. We are born with all we have and we never learn. We never get anything new. We all start complete.

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences.

I know now that there is no one thing is true–it is all true.

It had been wonderful and they had been truly happy and he had not known that you could love anyone so much that you cared about nothing else and other things seemed inexistent.

What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

I would not wish to bring either a son or a daughter into this world as this world is. And also you take all the love I have to give

Non sopporto il pensiero che la mia vita stia scorrendo via così in fretta e che io in realtà non la viva.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

So if your life trades its seventy years for seventy hours I have that value now and I am lucky enough to know it. And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it. Now, ahora, maintenant, heute. Now

But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

He could see the fish and he had only to look at his hands and feel his back against the stern to know that this had truly happened and was not a dream.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

He had already learned there was only one day at a time and that is was always the day you were in. It would be today until it was tonight and tomorrow would be today again. This was the main thing he had learned so far.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts.

There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now

Gondold el: ha volna Isten, soha nem engedte volna azt a sok mindent, amit én láttam, a két szememmel.

But in the dark now and no glow showing and no lights and only the wind and the steady pull of the sail he felt that perhaps he was already dead. He put his two hands together and felt the palms. They were not dead and he could bring the pain of life by simply opening and closing them. He leaned his back against the stern and knew he was not dead. His shoulders told him.