Quotes About Existence

If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.

Never that is shall die.

Ahimè, sento parole dolorose, peggiori per me di ogni morte. Non essere così crudele da abbandonarmi, te ne prego, per gli dei, per questi figli che lascerai orfani. Non cedere, fatti coraggio! Se tu muori io non sono più niente: solo per te esisto e vivo.

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night.

For too long I had existed, not really going anywhere and not standing still. I just lived, always in search of something that seemed just out of my range of vision.

I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.' I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue.

Sometimes," said Julia, "I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions—with the aid of my five senses." I have since learned that there is no such world

These memories, which are my life -- for we possess nothing certainly except the past -- were always with me.

we possess nothing certainly except the past

He was wondering at the unreality of ideas, at the fading radiance of existence, and at the little absorptions that were creeping avidly into his life, like rats into a ruined house

We are not in the world, we become with the world; we become by contemplating it. Everything is vision, becoming. We become universes.

But why do they have to continuously return to this irrational, religious, etc., stuff? Why? In a given state of subjectivity, there is no other way [ ... ]. If in order to exist we absolutely have to have recourse to this kind of thing, it isn't surprising that people rush headlong into it, even if they know that rationally it doesn't hold water. There's no getting rid of molar strata. Schizoanalysis cannot replace organizations.

certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I...

THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

You can't live forever; you can't live forever.

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is. and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.