Quotes About Existence

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

Tras el vivir y el soñar, está lo que más importa: despertar.

Y un hombre vi que en la desnuda mano mostraba al mundo el ascua de la vida, sin cenizas - el fuego heraclitano. Esto soñé.

Hoy es siempre todavía. Incluso después de hoy sigue siendo siempre todavía.

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Hoy es siempre todavía.

A sharp awareness of the other, invisible world to which he could return soon made more tolerable the painstaking ugliness of the one where he now found himself and where, in spite of the passage of years, he'd never stopped being a stranger, an intruder.

He's always been about to leave. He doesn't know for how many years he's been a guest in his own life.

He is summoned not by her desire but by the fact of her existence.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.

Man goes nowhere. Everything comes to man, like tomorrow.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.