Quotes About Existence

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified .

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Human life is inexplicable, and still without meaning: a fool may decide its fate.

I would believe only in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity - through him all things fall.

Man is the most bungled of all the animals, the sickliest, and not one has strayed more dangerously from its instincts. But for all that, of course, he is the most interesting.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.

the lie is a condition of life.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Reality is a flux, an endless becoming that is beyond words and language - all language is metaphor, useful to us but ultimately detached from reality.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Without music, life would be a mistake.. I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

there is no being behind doing, effecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction added to the deed—the deed is everything.

What have we in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew is lying upon it?

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Human existence basically is??a never to be completed imperfect tense.