Quotes About Existence

all that you call your past exists only as memory… all that you call future exits only as imagination… these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. Nothing more. Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. They are aspects of your psychological reality; they have nothing to do with the existential reality.

Todo lleva a creer que existe un cierto punto donde la vida y la muerte, lo real y lo imaginario, lo comunicable y lo incomunicable, lo alto y lo bajo cesan de ser percibidos contradictoriamente.

Debes creerme Paula: la intemporalidad es una carga mayor que la del tiempo terrenal. No sabes qué abrumador es cargar con algo que no tiene peso.

Wer nicht weiß, was die Welt ist, der weiß auch nicht, wo er lebt. Wer aber den Zweck ihres Daseins nicht kennt, der weiß weder, wer er selbst, noch was die Welt ist. Wem aber eins von diesen Stücken fehlt, der kann auch wohl seine eigene Bestimmung nicht angeben. In welchem Lichte erscheint dir nun ein Mensch, welcher um den lauten Beifall derer buhlt, die nicht wissen, wo, noch wer sie selbst sind?

There are moments that have a certain flavor of eternity

Même si aujourd'hui je vis sans elle, je ne suis plus jamais seul, puisqu'elle existe quelque part. (Even if I do't have her now, I'll never be alone again, because she exists somewhere)

Certains moments ont un goût d'éternité.

Solo que las cosas no se callan. El universo no es silencioso. El caracol suena.

El infierno está vacío y todos los demonios están aquí. William Shakespeare, La tempestad

La maldad existe, pero es inmaterial. Un epifenómeno de la voluntad humana.

Auch wenn wir das Meer vor vierhundert Millionen Jahren (nach meinem Kalender) verlassen haben, das Meer hat uns nicht verlassen. Es ist immer noch in uns, in unserem Blut, in unserem Schweiß, in unseren Tränen.

I am what I am. We are what we are.

What is a person if not the sum of her memories?" —Lela Dax

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive-- to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not.

This thing, what is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its substance and material?

Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see.