Quotes About Existence

Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.

It was love without reason, love for something futureless, love that appeared to exist only to be itself, imperious and all demanding, the kind that would cause him to make a fool of himself in an instant.

How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?

The nearness I mean comes after death perhaps. It is what we are struggling for and if I found it either I would be dead or I would have seen it for a second and life would be intolerable.

If I had to live in a city I think I would prefer New Orleans to any other--both Southern and Catholic and with indications that the Devil's existence is freely recognized.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

If they here, they somewhere.

Mr. Head turned slowly. He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation.

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.

The body, lady, is like a house: it don't go anywhere; but the spirit, lady, is like a automobile: always on the move, always...

Parker had never before felt the least motion of wonder in himself. Until he saw the man at the fair, it did not enter his head that there was anything out of the ordinary about the fact that he existed. Even then it did not enter his head, but a peculiar unease settled in him. It was as if a blind boy had been turned so gently in a different direction that he did not know his destination had been changed.

Man is nothing but a coagulation of mud and shit ... equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or crab-louse

Les hommes trouveront toujours que la chose la plus sérieuse de leur existence, c'est jouir.

Cuando los dioses ya no existían y Cristo no había aparecido aún, hubo un momento único, desde Cicerón hasta Marco Aurelio, en que sólo estuvo el hombre.

L'âme humaine est plus complexe et vaste que tout.

I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial

The preaching of the cross is an announcement of a living reality that continues to transform human existence and human destiny more than two thousand years after it originally occurred.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.

But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

What I thought was fascinating about comparative religion was that these were the stories that humans have told themselves about where they come from, who they are and where they're going, and what it means to be alive on the planet.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.