Quotes About Existence

In a world that was created by God's words, words are not symbols. They are things. You call a demon, you make a demon. You curse at God and you risk dying.

Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.

But meanwhile my store-bought arteries were slowly hardening, and every day six thousand cells were dying in my irreplaceable brain; and meanwhile stars slowed in their flight and the universe dragged itself toward its ultimate entropic death, and meanwhile - Meanwhile everything, if you stopped to think of it, was skidding downhill. And I never gave any of it a thought.

Perhaps I am even envious of Stendhal? He robbed me of the best atheist joke which precisely I could have made: 'God's only excuse is that he does not exist'...I myself have said somewhere: what hitherto been the greatest objection to existence? God ...

nihilism represents the ultimate logical conclusion of our great values and ideals—because we must experience nihilism before we can find out what value these values really had.'— We require, sometime, new values.

Nihilism appears at that point, not that the displeasure at existence has become greater than before but because one has come to mistrust any meaning in suffering, indeed in existence. One interpretation has collapsed; but because it was considered the interpretation it now seems as if there were no meaning at all in existence, as if everything were in vain.

p5 - It is matter for wonder: the moment that is here and gone, that was nothing before and nothing after, returns like a specter to trouble the quiet of a later moment...the beast(animals)...forgets at once and sees every moment really die, sink into night and mist, extinguished forever. The beast lives unhistorically...

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

One life is an absurdly small allowance.

pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

Who the deepest has thought loves what is most alive.

El hombre es un dios cuando sueña y un mendigo cuando reflexiona

In gods and godhead only he can truly believe who himself is godlike.

Never since the sun had stood in the firmament and the planets revolved around him had it been perceived that man's existence centres in his head, i.e., in Thought, inspired by which he builds up the world of reality.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.