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Quotes About Existence

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth
~ Anais Nin
Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.
~ Ananda Coomaraswamy
At the very least," she'd written to me once, "when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.
~ Anderson Cooper
The knowing of joy and the knowing of pain are
~ Anderson Cooper
At the very least, when we die we will be as if asleep, in the same place we were before birth, so why fear death? Scattered on the wind, unaware as we were before we came into this world, with no memory of any of it.
~ Anderson Cooper
I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.
~ Andre Breton
with the end of my breath, which is the beginning of yours.
~ Andre Breton
Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
~ Andre Breton
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
~ Andre Breton
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
~ André Comte-Sponville
All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?
~ André Comte-Sponville
No, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.
~ André Comte-Sponville
Est un être humain tout être né de deux êtres humains
~ André Comte-Sponville
Provas? Se houvesse, para que a fé? Um Deus que se poderia demonstrar seria um Deus?
~ André Comte-Sponville
Pensando bem, o presente é aliás a única coisa que nunca me faltou.
~ André Comte-Sponville
L'apparence est le tout du réel et du vrai – ce pourquoi il n'y a ni Réalité absolue, ni Vérité éternelle, ni Totalité sensée ou structurée. Pyrrhon
~ André Comte-Sponville
La vie est trop courte pour qu'on puisse entreprendre de la penser avant de la vivre. C'est
~ André Comte-Sponville
Já o ateísmo é uma forma de humildade. É considerar-se um animal, como de fato somos, e deixar-nos o encargo de nos tornar humanos.
~ André Comte-Sponville
Se não creio em Deus é também, e talvez principalmente, porque preferiria que ele existisse. É a aposta de Pascal, se quiserem, mas invertida. (...) Ora, Deus é tanto menos verossímil, parece-me, quanto mais é desejável: ele corresponde tão bem a nossos desejos mais fortes que é o caso de indagar se não o inventamos por isso.
~ André Comte-Sponville
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
~ Andre Gide
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
~ Andre Gide
I like life well enough to want to live it awake
~ Andre Gide
Existing is occupation enough.
~ Andre Gide