Quotes About Existence

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. 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. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that then they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

Z k?amstwa robi si? istot? porz?dku ?wiata.

Åžov?iala înaintea naÅŸterii.Dac? exist? într-adev?r metempsihoz?,atunci n-am ajuns pân? la treapta cea mai de jos.ViaÅ£a mea este ezitarea dinaintea naÅŸterii

So wird es sein, nur daß man auch in Wirklichkeit heute und später selbst dastehen wird, mit einem Körper und einem wirklichen Kopf, also auch einer Stirn, um mit der Hand an sie zu schlagen.

The time allotted to you is so short that if you lose one second you have already lost your whole life, for it is no longer, it is always just as long as the time you lose.

Pentru orice exist? un înlocuitor,artifical,jalnic,ÅŸi pentru str?moÅŸi,c?snicie ÅŸi urmaÅŸi.Îi creezi tu însuÅ£i în chinurile astea,ÅŸi dac? nu cumva ai pierit tu însuÅ£i în aceste chinuri,pân? la urm? lipsa de speran?? a unor asemenea false leacuri tot are s? te omoare.

There are questions we could never get past, were it not that we are freed of them by nature.

Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.

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Occasionally I feel an unhappiness which almost dismembers me, and at the same time am convinced of its necessity and of the existence of a goal to which one makes one's way by undergoing every kind of unhappiness.

I'm unpunctual, because I don't feel the pains of waiting. I wait like a cow. For when I feel a purpose, even if a very uncertain one, of my momentary existence, I'm so vain in my weakness that, once this purpose has been set before me, I will gladly tolerate anything for its sake. If I were in love, what I could do then. How long I waited years ago under the arcades on the Ring until M.[380] came by and even if she only passed by with her lover.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.

What is it that makes you all behave as though you were real? Are you trying to make me believe I'm unreal, standing here absurdly on the green pavement? You, sky, surely it's a long time since you've been real, and as for you, Ringplatz, you never have been real.

We are nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that come into God's head. — Franz Kafka, quoted in Walter Benjamin's Selected Writings . (Belknap Press; First Edition edition December 1, 1996)

Nu sunt punctual pentru c? nu simt suferinÅ£ele aÅŸtept?rii.AÅŸtept apatic,ca o vit?.Dac? aÅŸ avea un Å£el oarecare,cât de nesigur,în existenÅ£a asta a mea,de o clip?,aÅŸ fi atât de vanitos în sl?biciunea mea,încât,în numele acestui Å£el aflat în fa??,aÅŸ suporta totul bucuros.

62. Fakt, ?e istnieje tylko ?wiat duchowy, odbiera nam nadziej?, ale daje nam pewno??.

Odamda günlerce yaln?z?m, ziyan? yok. Dünyada da y?llarca yaln?z deÄŸil miydim?

I would gladly explain the feeling of happiness which, like now, I have within me from time to time. It is really something effervescent that fills me completely with a light, pleasant quiver and that persuades me of the existence of abilities of whose non-existence I can convince myself with complete certainty at any moment, even now.

Birinin hayat?n?n neresinde olduÄŸumu çözemediÄŸim zaman hiçbir yerinde olmamay? garantilerim çünkü belirsizlik, deÄŸersizliktir.

52. W walce pomi?dzy tob? a ?wiatem sekunduj ?wiatu.

27. Zosta? na nas na?o?ony jedynie obowi?zek negacji; to, co pozytywne, zosta?o nam ju? dane.

Nothing alive can be calculated.

Prayer," Kafka notes, brings "its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence.