Quotes About Existence

Es gibt unendlich viel Hoffnung, nur nicht für uns.

You do not need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away.

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.

Logic is doubtless unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who wants to go on living.

Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live.

That's how it will be, except that in reality, both today and later, one will stand there with a palpable body and a real head, a real forehead, that is, for smiting on with one's hand.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

And actually it's not at all you I love, but rather the existence you have bestowed on me.

Today one may pluck out one's very heart and not find it.

An und für sich ist uns das Lachen immer nah; trotz allem Jammer unseres Lebens ist ein leises Lachen bei uns gewissermaßen immer zu Hause.

Alone I continue living, yet when a visitor arrives it kills me.

it's impossible to understand how my breast could expand and contract to breathe this air, it's impossible to understand how you can be far away.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Extraordinary,' said the Burgomaster, 'extraordinary. And now do you think of staying here in Riva with us?' 'I think not', said the Hunter with a smile, and, to excuse himself, he laid his hand on the Burgomaster's knee. 'I am here, more than that I do not know, further than that I cannot go. My ship has no rudder, and it is driven by the wind that blows in the undermost regions of death.' (The Hunter Gracchus)

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

But happiness only if I can raise the world into the Pure, the True, the Immutable.

If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear, I would be no longer alive.

Only that which happens is possible.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

san otkriva stvarnost za kojom predstava zaostaje.strashno potiche od zhivota – potresno od umetnosti.

Self-control is something for which I do not strive. Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. But if I do have to draw such circles round myself, then it will be better for me to do it passively, in mere wonderment and gaping at the tremendous complex, taking home with me only the refreshment that this sight gives e contrario.

?ki saatlik ya?am iki sayfal?k bir yaz?dan daha iyidir diye emin olmay?n. Yaz? yoksuldur ama daha temizdir.

depois, comi o meu jantar de vegetariano, fiquei satisfeito com a minha digestão e tive algumas apreensões quanto a saber se a minha vida bastaria para toda a duração da minha vida.