Quotes About Existence

But for sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed their existence; it requires what it cannot hope, that the laws of the universe should be repealed; that the dead should return or the past should be recalled.

Even now that I have concluded this moving recapitulation, it seems as nothing; and the whole world, my dear is as a bit of dirt under my feet.

Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every thing has a life of its own, and that we are all one life.

O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a mind and thoughts, but I am not my mind. I have emotions and feelings, but I am not my emotions.

At last he had risen to hold forth tragically about the misfortune that it was to be alive.

Your life isn't something you can leave behind or run away from, because you are it. People, on the other hand, are another matter altogether.

We're not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spirits having a human experience.

The Now is the only thing that is real, anyway

You are your life, so your life is wherever you are.

Y sin él, yo no entendía para qué me despertaba por las mañanas.

Para que el Bien tenga mérito —enfatizó— hace falta que exista el Mal.

Quizá cada gato o cada perro se crea inmortal, porque no ha muerto. ¿Me sigue usted? Pero nosotros sabemos que moriremos y vivimos obsesionados con combatir la muerte, lo cual hace que ella tenga una presencia desmedida, a menudo aplastante, en nuestra vida. El ser humano tiene alma en la justa medida en que es consciente de su propia muerte.

Los nombres sirven para fingir que el tiempo no pasa y, al final, son lo único que queda de nosotros.

after all, it is this noticing that makes things real.

This kind of caring for oneself is not about caring for one's own happiness. It is about finding ways to exist in a world that makes it difficult to exist. This is why, this is how: those who do not have to struggle for their own survival can very easily and rather quickly dismiss those who attend to their own survival as being self-indulgent. They do not need to attend to themselves; the world does it for them.

In all its beautiful, tragic fragility, there was still life.

Oneness is always growing in the world, boy. Two but not two. It's always there, connecting its roots, humming. I can't be part of it--that's the price I pay for taking myself away. But you can be. You can vibrate with its heartbeat. You may be on your own. But you won't be alone.

Sometimes I see the future and it's like I'm a blank. I mean I know what I'll look like, that I'll exist. But I don't know who I'll be or who will be with me. At least I know who I'm not and who won't be with me.

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.' Clowns.

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really? He thought for a moment. Who says there has to be a point? he asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.