Quotes About Existence

Words passed, but words could no more prove an established innocence than words can enhance a love that exists.

Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society—much.

The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.

She [Thérèse] believed that the sublime splendour of ordinary existence was hidden from those who lived embedded in it, that for them the bread of every day must lose its savour. Only hearts like hers, fated to bear an infinite frustration, could feed on its intolerable absence.

Privatio presupponit habitum Yokluk varl??? ?art ko?ar.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one ise going to live forever and ever and ever

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now.

You are real, aren't you?" he said. "I have such real dreams very often. You might be one of them.

It was a vague belief that she herself was not quite real—or that she did not belong to the life she had been born into.

At least the girls in stories were alive before they died.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

It's scary to feel this much in such a dangerous world. Even if what you feel, overwhelmingly, like inhaling the precious, still-surviving existing earth, is not fear but love.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

There are a number of ways to die, Willi. One of them is a spiritual kind of murder. The body lives on, but the soul's gone out of it.

Because the diary was not written in retrospect, it contains the trembling life of every moment.

Margot used to like describing men as 'my unhappy love affair.' But hadn't that presumed the existence of a happy love affair that made the others unimportant? What is unhappy is the only kind Margo ever has?

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.

Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo. En cambio, como lo empezaba a comprender al mirar dentro de mi propio corazón, la evidencia de la existencia de Dios tenía que llegar de otra dirección, y

Those distractions combine with a desire to avoid considering our own mortality, so that days, weeks, months, or even years can easily pass where no serious consideration is given to the eternal questions of human existence.

o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179

Si Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo.

So when the atheist bus comes by, and tells you that there's probably no God so you should stop worrying and enjoy your life, the slogan is not just bitterly inappropriate in mood. What it means, if it's true, is that anyone who isn't enjoying themselves is entirely on their own.