Quotes About Existence

What counted was how you behaved while death let you live, and how you met death when life released you.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

I feel very strongly that this modern fear of the home becoming non-existent can be countered only if those of us who want to be sure our little spot is really a home take very practical measures to be sure that it is just that, and not a collection of furniture sitting in some sort of enclosure being protected from wind and storm.

Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent. "Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Zu den Sachen selbst!

He has,in short,reached his peak as a hunter,exuberantly altered from the pale,overweight statesman of ten months ago. Africa's way of reducing every problem of existence to dire alternatives-shoot or starve,kill or be killed,shelter or suffer,procreate or count for nothing-has clarified his thinking,purged him of politics and its constant search for compromise.

To live, for him, has no meaning other than to drive oneself, to act with all one's strength. An existence without stress, without struggle, without growth has always struck him as mindless. Those who remain on the sidelines he sees as cowards, and consequently his personal enemies.

That here on earth is no sure happiness.

Life is a continuum. The soul is all that's permanent. Death is a rebirth. Leaves and birds come back, so does the soul. We all have a life cycle. It's nature, part of the universe, part of everything around us.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

The poem is the thing. Is it interesting? – Is it beautiful? –Is it sublime? Then it was written by nobody. It exists by itself.

This my personal death?— That my lungs be failing To inhale the breath Others are exhaling?

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

We walk On the skin Of life.

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.

No debería preocuparme por lo que ahora acontece. Pues cada instante niega el anterior, y la ilusión de continuidad es lo que llamamos tiempo. Que luego se convierte en sueños o recuerdos.

Es en verdad curioso —dije— cómo la memoria es el último superviviente del naufragio de nuestra existencia, cómo el pasado destila estalactitas en el vacío de nuestra ejecutoria, cómo la empalizada de nuestras certezas se abate ante la leve brisa de una nostalgia.

Los estúpidos se conservan mejor físicamente porque no los corroe la ansiedad existencial a la que se ve sometida la gente más o menos lúcida.

The sea – it is as incomprehensible as existence – it is incomprehensible as death – as eternal as longing.