Quotes About Existence

For a moment the visible world faded away, and memories and emotions alone seemed real.

He understood nothing except that man has been created to feel pain and loneliness without help from heaven.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

Alec no era un héroe ni un dios, sino un hombre inmerso en una sociedad como él, para el que el mar y los bosques y la fresca brisa y el sol no preparaban ninguna apoteosis.

And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds—a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

Maurice e Clive] Voltaram a falar de teologia, com Maurice a defender a Redenção. Perdeu. Viu que não tinha qualquer noção da existência de Cristo ou da sua bondade, e talvez tivesse mesmo pena se tal pessoa existisse. O seu desagrado pelo Cristianismo cresceu e aprofundou-se. Em dez dias desistiu de comungar, em três semanas deixou de ir a todas as missas que podia. ----------------------------------------------- p.56, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

He was more skilled than they were in the principles of human existence, but he was not so indecently familiar with the examples. A sordid village scandal—such as Stephen described as a huge joke—sprang from certain defects in human nature, with which he was theoretically acquainted. But the example!

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men. A friend explains himself; the earth is explicable — from her we came, and we must return to her. But who can explain Westminster Bridge Road or Liverpool Street in the morning — the city inhaling — or the same thoroughfares in the evening — the city exhaling her exhausted air?

We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don't believe in this world sorrow.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Only photography has been able to divide human life into a series of moments, each of them has the value of a complete existence.

And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all this, the great, blind, wistful soul of mankind, which had been here before he was born and would be here when he was dead--still groping, yearning, struggling upward, on and on--to something distant as the sun. And still would he be part of it all, through the eager lives of his children.

In the soul there is only the eternal present.

No atheism simply falls from heaven.

The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly.

The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be. . .and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, SEE, this is new It hath been already of old time, which was before us. There is no remembrance of former things.

Hakikatte kad?nlar, bu alem içinde ba?ka bir alemde ya?arlar. ?çine a?klar?n? ve büyülerini üfledikleri bir alemdir bu. Erkekler biteviye o alemi h?rpalar, y?kar. Kad?nlar ise yeniden üfleyerek nefesleriyle kurarlar o alemi. Kad?nlar, erkekleri de üfleyerek var ederler. Bir erkek, bir kad?n?n nefesi kadard?r; ba?ka hiçbir ?ey de?ildir.

They could also have given a long lecture on the new type of right-wing crusade that reduces democracy to the ballot box, and how this subjugates political choices to fears of hunger, unemployment and, ultimately, social insecurity. And when democracy shrinks to being no more than a voting process, then the destiny of a country becomes inseparable from its single ruler's political existence.

It's always Now.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can't be. This is just a dream we're having. While all our friends sleep.

Maybe life didn't make sense but then it was our business, I guess, to impose meaning on it.