Quotes About Existence

The future is fiction. It will come, of course, we hear about it all the time, but the old wisdom knows that only what is, and what was, exists. The rest does not, because no one ever saw it or touched it.

it gives me no rest, my wish to know the fate of all these scenes that entered my eyes and have remained in my thoughts. What happens to them when I am no longer there?

Próbuj? wyobrazi? sobie ?wiat przed fotografi? i nie potrafi?. Prawdopodobnie w ogóle nie istnia?, nieustannie przepada?,poch?oni?ty przez ruchliwe, nienasycone zmys?y, nic z niego nie zostawa?o.

Ciemno?? i czas - lekkie, niewidzialne substancje, które obna?aj? ludzk? krucho??. Umys? jest tylko p?omykiem zapa?ki na wietrze. Dusza ze strachu przed mrokiem wtula si? w cia?o, a ono swoje istnienie stwierdza dotykaj?c w?asnej skóry.

With events that have passed there is no problem, provided we don't attempt to be wiser that they are, provided we can't use them to further own own ends. If we let them be, the turn into a marvelous solution, a magical acid that dissolves time and space, eats calendars and atlases, and turns the coordinates of action into sweet nothingness. What is the meaning of the riddle? What is the use to anyone of chronology, sister of death?

The Napoleon, the whisky and the Cinzano slept on the highest shelf, as unreal in their beauty and as out of reach as the women in American television programs. In their struggle for a higher existence, these men were forever stuck on the level of their forefathers, on the lowest shelf, where the bottles of white vodka and fruit wine stood open and ready. It was a safe and familiar legacy, the limit of their patrimony, their christening, their Sunday mass and their graveyard.

If you are breathing, you are still alive. If you are alive, then you are still here, physically, on this planet. If you are still here, then you have not completed what you were put on earth to do. If you have not completed what you were put on earth to do … that means your very purpose has not yet been fulfilled. If your purpose has not yet been fulfilled, then the most important part of your life has not yet been lived.

Life is a breath, a passing breeze; a blade of grass, green and vibrant for a time, only to wither, die, and disappear. Soon you will be dead.

Proper perspective about every facet of your existence is only everything.

We exist in the midst of eternity all the time.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work ' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

I'm not afraid to die; I just don't want to be there when it happens

Man must first live before he can live abundantly.

Time is not successive," he said. "It is concrete, cosntant, simultaneous, and not uniform.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed. This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.

They look around the world and think: 'There must be something better!' But there isn't. Sorry, chum. This is it. What you see is what you get. Only the here and now.

Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.

I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.