Quotes About Existence

Despedíos del error infantil de preguntar el sentido de las cosas y las palabras. Nada tiene sentido.

Life would be intolerable if we were conscious of it. Happily, we are not. We live with the same unconsciousness as animals, in the same futile vain way, and if we think in advance about death (which they, in all probability, without being dogmatic do not do), we think about it through the veils of so many oblivions, so many distractions and meanderings, that it can hardly be said we think about it at all.

Ever since I was a child, the intrinsic futility of all forms of action has been a cherished touchstone for my detachment from everything, including me.

It's better to write than dare to live, even if living is nothing more than buying bananas...

Bendito sea el elemento irónico de los destinos que concede a los pobres de vida el sueño como pensamiento, así como concedo a los pobres de sueño la vida como pensamiento o el pensamiento como vida.

Ä°stemeden var?m ve istemeden öleceÄŸim. OlduÄŸum ÅŸeyle olmad???m ÅŸey aras?nda, hayal ettiÄŸim ÅŸeyle hayat?n beni yapt??? ÅŸey aras?nda bir boÅŸluÄŸum.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think.

The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I'm doomed always to feel, like the world's great damned men, that it's better to think than to live. 202

Încep s? m? cunosc.Eu nu exist. Sunt intervalul dintre ceea ce doresc s? fiu ÅŸi ceea ce au f?cut alÅ£ii din mine, Sau jum?tatea acestui interval,c?ci mai exist? ÅŸi via??... Asta sunt,în sfârÅŸit... Stinge lumina,închide uÅŸa,f? cumva s? nu se mai aud? târâÅŸitul papucilor pe coridor, S? pot r?mâne singur în camer? ÅŸi s?-mi tihneasc? bine de mine însumi. E un univers ieftin.

Para el hombre vulgar, sentir es vivir y pensar es saber vivir. Para mí, pensar es vivir y sentir no es más que el alimento del pensar.

Because I am nothing, I can imagine myself to be anything. If I were somebody, I wouldn't be able to. An assistant bookkeeper can imagine himself to be a Roman emperor; the King of England can't do that, because the King of England has lost the ability in his dreams to be any other king than the one he is. His reality does not allow him to exist.

Tal vez se descubra que aquello que llamamos Dios, y que de forma tan patente está en otro plano diferente al de la lógica y la realidad espacial y temporal, es una forma de nuestra existencia, una sensación de nosotros mismos en otra dimensión del ser.

If I was reincarnated, it was without myself, without my I.

Los clasificadores de cosas, que son aquellos hombres de ciencia cuya ciencia consiste sólo en clasificar, ignoran, en general, que lo clasificable es infinito y por lo tanto no se puede clasificar. Pero en lo que consiste mi pasmo es en que ignoren la existencia de clasificables desconocidos, cosas del alma y de la conciencia que se encuentran en los intersticios del conocimiento.

Me doro con ponientes supuestos, pero lo supuesto está vivo en la suposición.

Since all stoicism is really just a harsher form of epicureanism

Dormimos ali acordados dias, contentes de não ser nada, de não ter desejos nem esperanças, de nos termos esquecido da cor dos amores e do sabor dos ódios.

32 [151] Dawn in the countryside just exists; dawn in the city overflows with promise. One makes you live, the other makes you think. And, along with all the other great unfortunates, I've always believed it's better to think than to live.

We're stories telling stories, (…)

There's metaphysics enough in not thinking about anything.

What's in all this besides myself? Ah, but that, and that alone, is tedium. In all of this – the sky, the earth, the world – there is nothing at all but me!

aquele Jesus Cristo que não foi nada no mundo, tanto que se duvida dele pela história

L?udat fie Domnul pentru faptul c? nu sunt bun, Åži c? am egoismul natural al florilor Sau al râurilor ce îÅŸi urmeaz? calea Preocupate f?r? s?-ÅŸi de-a seama Doar s? înfloreasc? sau s? curg? la vale. Iat? singura misiune pe-aceast? lume, Asta ÅŸi numai asta- adic? a exista cât se poate de clar, Åži a ÅŸti s? o faci f?r? s? te gândeÅŸti c? exiÅŸti.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room to the other, dreaming out loud incoherent and impossible things – deeds I'd forgotten to do, hopeless ambitions haphazardly realized, fluid and lively conversations which, were they to be, would already have been.