Quotes About Existence

Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.

The price of being alive is that someday you aren't.

Some Arab invented the idea of the number zero," I said. "Isn't that weird? Someone had to think zero up."   Because it isn't obvious—that nothing can be something. That something which can't be measured or seen could still exist and have meaning. Same with the soul, when you think about it.  

So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it. The

So for online people, death doesn't happen. People go online to hide from death and wind up hiding from life.

Everyone lives in two worlds, right? There's the physical world . . . but there's also our own private inner worlds, the world of our thoughts. A world made of ideas instead of stuff. It's just as real as our world, but it's inside.

I have known others who could use totems of their own to turn reality inside out. To reshape it like the soft clay it is. There was Craddock McDermott, who claimed that his spirit existed in a favorite suit of his.

The second kid, he hears that John Donne quote—We're scarce our fathers' shadows cast at noon—and nods and thinks, Ah, shit, ain't that the truth?

Something that doesn't know it's alive, obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want to Be.

In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day.

For all we know, we might've already slipped into the future without noticing it.

What a blessed, if painful thing, this being alive.

Minutes did not pass, collecting into hours. There was no point in thinking about time in the old way. There was only one moment and then another moment, in a string of moments that went on in a quiet, deadly procession.

Something that doesn't know it's alive obviously can't be expected to know when it's dead.

then he said souls aren´t boys and aren´t girls. they´re only souls.

All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To fear this... is to fear life.

YaÅŸayan her ÅŸey ölür. Bu yüzden yaÅŸamaktan keyif almal?s?n, hala zaman?n varken sonunu düÅŸünmemelisin.

and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.

for i am old. so very old. older than she got to be. and I'm not sure a person ought to live to be too old. for when you can´t live life, you´re just burning life, sucking air and making turds.

I come to think on that watch some more, and it come to me that God wasn't all loving. He was like a big watchmaker, and we were the innards of his watch, and this here earth we stand on is the watch's slippery surface. Once God got the watch made, set it ticking, he sat back and said, 'Well, good luck to you son of a bitches, cause I'm done.

McBride lo colpì con un pugno con tanta di quella forza che Jack credette di sentire le vite passate che smettevano di esistere;

Sartre said "Hell is other people," while Streisand sang "People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.

Sometimes I feel as if mountains have become an addiction, the pleasure gone, the compulsion to partake remaining. Rarely blessed with the enjoyment of the moment, I had come to realise the satisfaction of going to the limit, physically and mentally, of dipping into danger and exhaustion, of returning full of enthusiasm for life and appreciation for every part of existence.