Quotes About Existence

La vie est la farce à mener par tous.

He malgastado mi vida. ¡Vamos! Finjamos, holguemos, ¡oh piedad! Y existiremos divirtiéndonos, soñando amores monstruosos y universos fantásticos, quejándonos y combatiendo las apariencias del mundo, saltimbanqui, mendigo, artista, bandido, ¡sacerdote! Sobre mi lecho de hospital, el olor del incienso retornó a mí tan potente; guardián de aromas sagrados, confesor, mártir…

Weakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don't know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.

Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos.

It is wrong to say: I think. One should say: I am thought.

Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l'Éternité. C'est la mer mêlée Au soleil.

Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.

I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?

Ghosts!—They exist, they exist! Dead things playing at being alive.

It seemed to her as if it had been an unpleasant day. She went over the actual events in her mind, and was astonished to find that, after all, the day had been like many hundreds before it and many, many more that were yet to come.

Unter Antinomien nicht zusammenbrechen, das ist unsere Lebensaufgabe.

Dieu est-il le rêve de l'humanité? Ce serait trop beau. L'humanité est-elle le rêve de Dieu? Ce serait trop abominable.

La realtà di una notte, e anzi neppure quella di un'intera vita umana, non significano, al tempo stesso, anche la loro più profonda verità ». « E nessun sogno » disse egli con un leggero sospiro « è interamente un sogno ».

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Life is a constant process of dying.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into sub-consciousness; and beyond that we must postulate something indefinite but yet continuous with our mental nature. This I take it be the world-stuff.

When we encounter unexpected obstacles in finding out something which we wish to know, there are two possible courses to take. It may be that the right course is to treat the obstacle as a spur to further efforts; but there is a second possibility - that we have been trying to find something which does not exist. You will remember that that was how the relativity theory accounted for the apparent concealment of our velocity through the aether.

The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness that we can attribute a meaning to it. And so it is with the actuality of the world. If actuality means 'known to mind' then it is a purely subjective character of the world; to make it objective we must substitute 'knowable to mind'.

During eternity past, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished.

This earth of ours is old, how old we do not know, possibly millions of years. But "the word" was before all things. He was not only from the beginning, but He was "in the beginning.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Os dois companheiros constataram filosoficamente que cada dia da vida das pessoas era, sem excepção, o primeiro dia do resto das suas vidas, embora todos estivessem geralmente demasiado atarefados para pensar nisso.