Quotes About Existence

The art of story is not about the middle ground, but about the pendulum of existence swinging to the limits, about life lived in its most intense states. We explore the middle ranges of experience, but only as a path to the end of the line. The audience senses that limit and wants it reached. For no matter how

Most human beings believe that life brings closed experiences of absolute, irreversible change; that their greatest sources of conflict are external to themselves; that they are the single and active protagonists of their own existence; that their existence operates through continuous time within a consistent, causally interconnected reality; and that inside this reality events happen for explainable and meaningful reasons.

To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the artist's responsibility. Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.

O público quer saber como é estar vivo na ponta da faca do agora. O que significa ser um ser humano hoje?

Story is metaphor for life, and to be alive is to be in seemingly perpetual conflict.

Todo ocurre; todo lo imaginable ocurre. De hecho, también ocurre lo inimaginable.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." ? Karl Marx

The laws prohibiting suicide and providing punishment for any attempt at self-destruction have been repealed. The Government has seen fit to acknowledge the right of man to end an existence which may have become intolerable to him, through physical suffering or mental despair.

The self does not stand alone; as we've seen, the self is not a thing, let alone a thing in itself. Rather, we experience selfhood as a renewable capacity to construct and field identities. Like evanescent particles in a cloud chamber, the existence of the self is inferred from its byproducts.

Siento que la vida exige emociones, no reflexiones.

The lively is always more contemplative than what is dead and sad.

Vivamos primero, que las observaciones vendrán luego por sí solas.

In the sweet light of love I believed I was able to recognize—or required to feel—that the inward self is the only self which really exists.

I cannot live and at the same time despise my life. I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life.

Everything dreamed because it was alive, and everything lived because it was permitted to dream.

Walk,' was my answer, 'I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world.... Without walking, I would be dead.

there come moments when we know we are no more and no less than waves and snowflakes, or than that which surely feels, now and then, from its so wonderfully charming confinement, the pull of longing: the leaf.

There are no gods, only one, and he's too sublime to help.

In the sweet light of love I realized, or believed I realized, that perhaps the inward self is the only self which really exists.

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.