Quotes About Existence

Life is fraught with sorrows: no matter what we do, we will in the end die; we are, each of us, held in the solitude of an autonomous body; time passes, and what has been will never be again.

There is a Russian expression: if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead.

There is a Russian expression: if you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. While life is not only about pain, the experience of pain, which is particular in its intensity, is one of the surest signs of the life force.

An untreated severe cleft palate can have dire consequences and is undeniably a disability. But there is no simple equation whereby the existence of the fix means that the condition is no longer a disability; rectifying a condition is not the same thing as forestalling

That's what hell means, perhaps, being compelled not just to live but to relive.

Life was a road, and if departed from at a tangent, the longer for it. And a long road was a long life - a case where to travel was better than to arrive, the point of arrival being, after all, always the same: death.

The full story is what you get told only if and when your work, and with it your existence, are no longer required.

No matter, said the old man hoarsely. Means you're still alive if it hurts.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of work, because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep

I could have told her that if something is disappointing I know it's not nothing because nothing is not disappointing.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: No creo en la muerte porque uno no está presente para saber que, en efecto, ha ocurrido (Andy Warhol)

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike. I don't feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don't really know if it's better to just not believe in anything, either.

She felt with the shiver the rare sensation that she was exactly where she should be. She was an idea, a memory, one perfect possibility out of an infinite number.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.

It's more that I'm afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I'm supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I'm afraid of what I'll miss.

Are you sure were not dead? I really fucking hope not.

I'm afraid of time. I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself.

Thoughts were nothing. Memories were nothing. They were nothing you could touch. They took no time. You could fit them all on the point of a pin. You could bring your entire world into doubt in a span of a few seconds.

It's by living that you live more.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.