Quotes About Existence

Çimenleri biçen adam orada hiç olmam?? gibidir; bahç?vansa bir ömür boyu orada olacak.

Le cose che si sono viste una volta non possono morire, semplicemente non possono. Da qualche parte, nelle celle gocciolanti di cera di un alveare o nelle trentamile lenticole che ornano la testa di una falena, tutti i colori e le cose viste in un dato anno dovevano potersi ritrovare

The sun burned every day. It burned Time.

Oh, el realismo!¡Oh, el aquí, oh, el ahora, oh, el infierno!

The words become poetry that no one minds, because no one has thought to call it that. Time is there. Love is there. Story is there.

Why, we're just petty insects, all of us, fighting on a pinhead planet.

quando sono a Boston, New York non esiste. Quando sono a New York, Boston non esiste. [...] L'unica realtà, in questo momento, siamo tu, io e la nave spaziale. E l'unica certezza che ho sono io.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outward, we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we will be with all the world.

manifestation of the horrendous power that is of all creation. The ends of things are always painful. But pain is part of there being a world at all.

It is the still point in the turning world.

suffering," he said, "is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life.

Our true reality is in our identity and unity with all life.

Reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of order of the universe.

Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life.

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. It tells you what the experience is.

Todos los dioses, todos los cielos, todos los infiernos, están en ti.

That's the same idea that comes to us through the German Romantics, as well as out of India. To Goethe's "Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("Everything transitory is but a reference"),5 Nietzsche adds another point: "Alles Unvergängliche—das ist nur ein Gleichnis" ("All things eternal are only references as well").

His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!