Quotes About Existence

When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.

Because the thing is, as Milo and my friends taught me, ghosts do exist. They don't have to be the creepy monsters that cause nightmares or do harm. They can take the form of memories, of feelings, or of a hard-to-define presence. Or of something else that's impossible to explain, but that's totally okay—just because something can't be explained doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost utopian.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

Life, what is it but a dream?

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

Alicia: ¿Cuánto tiempo es para siempre? Conejo blanco: A veces, sólo un segundo.

A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

If you think we're waxworks, he said, you ought to pay, you know.Waxworks weren't made to be looked at for nothing. Nohow! Contrariwise, added the one marked 'DEE', if you think we're alive, you ought to speak.

Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?

Why, about you ! Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? Where I am now, of course, said Alice. Not you! Tweedledee retorted contemptuously. You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake, added Tweedledum, you'd go out--bang!--just like a candle! I shouldn't! Alice exclaimed indignantly.

Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar.

You know very well you're not real.

Is all our life then, but a dream?

Alice: per quanto tempo è per sempre? - Bianconiglio: a volte, solo un secondo.

Non credere mai d'essere diversa da quella che appari agli altri di esser o d'esser stata, o che tu possa essere, e l'essere non è altro che l'essere di quell'essere ch'è l'essere dell'essere, e non diversamente.»

For nonsense, as Chesterton liked to tell us, is a way of looking at existence that is akin to religious humility and wonder.

Cuánto dura la eternidad? -preguntó Alicia- -A veces, solo un segundo -respondió el conejo

That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence. "And now for the garden!

That was a narrow escape!" said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence.

So I wasn't dreaming, after all," she said to herself, "unless—unless we're all part of the same dream. Only I do hope it's my dream, and not the Red King's! I don't like belonging to another person's dream," she went on in a rather complaining tone: "I've a great mind to go and wake him, and see what happens!

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't.

Si así fue, así pudo ser; si así fuera, así podría ser; pero como no es, no es.