Quotes About Existence

Non è colpa della Francia se continuiamo a essere un paio di stranieri, caro. E' colpa nostra. Una vocazione, un destino. Come la nostra professione d'interpreti, un'altra maniera di essere sempre uno straniero, di stare senza stare, di essere ma non essere.

No era la vida algo absurdo, una representación dramática que de súbito se volvía farsa?

Dan camkan ini, pada hari di mana kalian berhenti berjalan, kalian akan lenyap seutuhnya.

Per colpa sua, le illusioni che fanno dell'esistenza qualcosa di più d'una somma di cose routinarie, si erano spente. A tratti, mi sentivo un vecchio.

Hicieron, entonces, lo único que podían hacer, con heroísmo, sí, pero sin violentar los mil y un tabúes y preceptos que regulaban su existencia: dejarse matar.

Could something be real when all evidence of it was gone? Was something categorically true if it lived on only in your head, same as your dreams?

So I would die in here. I'd leave my little life. I'd barely worn it out. Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closest, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

they're weak, petty, so apathetic about this gift of life as if it were all a mere Pepsi commercial.

I was a ticking clock in a timeless world

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

Without time, nothing had meaning. Never before had I understood how crucial the passage of time was to caring about something. It gave it an expiry date, a wick, a rush, a burn. Without it, everything sat in place, dumbly waiting. In

I think I've heard this story before. He died alone? Everyone dies alone.

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love.

I could hear his breathing, every breath he borrowed from the world then set free.

what it's all for. We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop. They say in the next twenty years we're going to merge with computer chips to cure aging and become immortal. Who wants an eternity of being a machine?

Dear friend, life passes with or without God.

We give meaning to life based on our point of view. Only wisdom, like the light of the candle, can bring us a complete view of existence. The key to wisdom is doubt! If you doubted a little, you would definitely be less arrogant.

Life hangs from so slender a thread. Life is but a sigh..

La vie ne tient qu'à si peu de chose, la vie n'est qu'un soupir ...

Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And

Would it be so strange to think that upon death, when there is no newly created consciousness in the continuation of our histories, we might experience ourselves in God as participants in God's own life? And if such could happen, would it not be the case that as God experiences the continuing events of the world, we who are held in the life of God would also experience the continuing stories of earth?

The old mystics were fond of saying that we are capax Dei, that is, capable of receiving and embodying divine life.

In his own words, Richards embraces the notion of life as a wild animal, and his legendary close shaves have left him with a unique take on existence. Yet somehow, Keith Richards's implacably rock 'n roll worldview has something to offer al of us ...

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived, —THOMAS MERTON