Quotes About Existence

He was a philosopher, if you know what that was.' 'A man who dreams of fewer things than there are in heaven and earth,' said the Savage promptly.

One's forty, one has lived more than half one's life, the world is marvellous and mysterious. And yet one spends four hours chattering about nothing at Tantamount House. Why should triviality be so fascinating? Or is there something else besides the triviality that draws one?

the fact that there was this capacity even in a paranoiac for intelligence, even in a devil worshipper for love; the fact that the ground of all being could be totally manifest in a flowering shrub, a human face; the fact that there was a light and that this light was also compassion.

ToÅ£i oamenii care ÅŸtiu s? citeasc? au puterea de a se dep??i pe ei înÅŸiÅŸi, de a multiplica în mod creator modurile lor de existen??, au puterea s? fac? în aÅŸa fel încît viaÅ£a lor s? fie interesant? ÅŸi plin? de semnificaÅ£ie.

The individual, he began in a soft and sadly philosophical tone, is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes besides himself. He

Her ÅŸeyin ula??labilir olduÄŸu bir dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin anlam? yoktur

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!

transience that was yet eternal life, a perpetual perishing that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.

Can you say something about nothing? That's what it finally boils down to. I try and I try.

There seems to be plenty of it," was all I would answer, when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time.

The old self seemed unprecedentedly heavier than the surrounding atmosphere.

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

What fun it would be,' he thought, 'if one didn't have to think about happiness!' With

He held out his right hand in the moonlight. From the cut on his wrist the blood was still oozing. Every few seconds a drop fell, dark, almost colourless in the dead light. Drop, drop, drop. To-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow... He had discovered Time and Death and God.

The more [science] discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery of existence itself stand out.

You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I saw to it myself.' Taking his egg, 'On the contrary,' Fanning answered, 'I'd be the first to rejoice. If people write, it means they exist; and all I ask is to be able to pretend that the world doesn't exist.

the same person is simultaneously a mass of atoms, a physiology, a mind, an object with a shape that can be painted, a cog in the economic machine, a voter, a lover etc'

Ca?y k?opot z fikcj? literack? polega na tym - rzek? John Rivers - ?e za du?o w niej sensu. W rzeczywisto?ci nigdy nie ma sensu

Je?eli chce si? ?y? ka?d? nadarzaj?c? si? chwil?, trzeba umiera? dla ka?dej innej chwili.

Ng??i bi?t ??c n?m trong tay s?c m?nh ?? khu?ch ??i b?n thân mình, ?? nhân lên nh?ng cách mình t?n t?i, ?? l?p ??y cuá»™c ??i mình má»™t cách Ä'áng k? và thú v?.

comment savez-vous si la terre n'est pas l'enfer d'une autre planète

Aldous Huxley

Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individualized existence.

What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!