Quotes About Existence

The self is essentially intangible and must be understood in terms of possibilities, dread, and decisions. When I behold my possibilities, I experience that dread which is "the dizziness of freedom," and my choice is made in fear and trembling.

The value of a human being, Nietzsche said, does not lie in his usefulness: for it would continue to exist even if there were nobody to whom he could be useful.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your "Core Attachments," means apologizing for your very existence.

Time was God's first creation.

Things without people are as dead as the dead. It takes people to make them appear to breathe & live & have quality.

The dead are alive and the living are buried by them.

Aber was interessiert mich der Schnee von morgen? Ich bin mit der Bewältigung und Vergangenheit so gut ausgelastet, dass ich nicht auch noch wissen muss, was mir in der Zukunft blüht.

There's a reason for every journey, and mine was prompted by boredom and the recklessness of youth, by a wish to break the bounds of my normal existence and familiarise myself with life and the world at large.

Why not ask yourself whether your other dreams are real? You go on trips and undergo the strangest experiences every night. How do you know they only take place in your mind?

Es war sogar etwas Tröstliches in dieser toten Welt, denn die Abwesenheit von Leben bedeutet auch die Abwesenheit von Gefahr. Alles Böse geht von den Lebenden aus.

Es ist uns ein bißchen peinlich", sagte Golgo, "daß etwas so Hochgeistiges wie Lesen bei uns mit etwas so Profanen wie Verdauung einhergeht. Aber so ist das nun mal. Wir ernähren uns vom Leben!

Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!

La autorrealización es un derecho que tienes por el solo hecho de haber nacido.

El amor es lo que somos.

Existo y por eso te amo, y no al revés, te amo y por eso existo

Todo fluye, todo cambia, todo nace y muere, nada permanece, todo se diluye; lo que tiene principio tiene fin, lo nacido muere y lo compuesto se descompone. Todo es transitorio, insustancial y, por tanto, insatisfactorio. No hay nada fijo de qué aferrarse».

Ah what avails the sceptred race,Ah what the form divine!

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.

Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist ez wâr?

For you also came into existence not when you chose, but when the world had need of you.

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Who can tell, when he sets forth to wander, whither he may be driven by the unscertain currents of existence, or when he may return, or whether it may ever be his lot to revisit the scenes of his childhood?