Quotes About Existence

For why do our thoughts turn to some gesture of a hand, the fall of a sleeve, some corner of a room on a particular anonymous afternoon, even when we are asleep, and even when we are so old that our thoughts have abandoned other business? What are all these fragments for, if not to be knit up finally?

I can imagine him beyond the world, looking back at me with an amazement of realization—This is why we have lived this life! There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.

All that purpose. Always on their way somewhere. You had to admire. Maybe a chirp meant "I exist!" and then "I exist!," as if it could matter.

Beauty is a conversation between humankind and reality. . . .

My father was right. He told me once, The creatures want their lives. Every one of them. When this creature has an empty belly, he finds something to put in it. So, no need to worry.

She said, "meaninglessness would come as a terrible blow to most people. It would be full of significance for them. So it wouldn't be meaningless. That's where I always end up. Once you ask if there is meaning, the only answer is yes. You can't get away from it.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them.

How could it be that none of it mattered? It was most of what happened.

In the matter of belief, I have always found that defenses have the same irrelevance about them as the criticisms they are meant to answer. I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things. We participate in Being without remainder. No breath, no thought, no wart or whisker, is not as sunk in Being as it could be. And yet no one can say what Being is.

The teleological argument, or argument from design, attempts to furnish evidence for God's existence from the apparent design of the world.

I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.

The world is what it is, and you are what you are.

A life without flowers is no life at all, for beauty is more necessary than we can imagine.

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.

Qué suerte tenían aquellos para quienes la existencia del ser supremo no había sido nunca un problema, sino una certeza gracias a la cual el mundo se les ordenaba y todo encontraba su explicación y razón de ser.

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?

En lo que se refiere a Dios hay que creer, no razonar», decía Herbert. «Si razonas, Dios se esfuma como una bocanada de humo.»

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Se había acordado de algo que le dijo Trifulcio esa noche, la víspera de su partida a Lima, cuando caminaban a oscuras: estoy en Chincha y siento que no estoy, reconozco todo y no reconozco nada.

Inventamos las ficciones para poder vivir de alguna manera las muchas vidas que quisiéramos tener cuando apenas disponemos de una sola.

Por su culpa, las ilusiones que hacen de la existencia algo más que una suma de rutinas, se me habían apagado. A ratos, me sentía un viejo.

como la idea de que reemplazar el vivir por el representar, hacer de la vida una espectadora de sí misma, implica un empobrecimiento de lo humano (proposición n.º 30).

Un hombre debe vivir mientras sienta que la vida vale la pena.