Quotes About Being

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. I had acquired a dimension of suffering which would poison and devour my whole being, as far as I could see, forever.

Is your father writing a book? said Alison. No. He's existing. Some people live, like the rest of us, like the people in your plays. He just exists.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.

He felt obscurely the dividedness of his being, the extent of what was gross, the littleness and value of what was not.

as we're enjoying the twisted but undeniable sexuality which is part and parcel of the complete dominance over another human being. This is one of the things that makes policework such a satisfying career

These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.

She was aware that she had avoided the abortion more from fear of the pain and of dying from a hemorrhage or infection than out of respect for the being that was growing inside her.

We are what we think. Our being emerges from our thoughts. Our thoughts construct the world," the monk told her telepathically.

she had a premonition that her daughter was a heavenly being, and that she was not destined to last very long in the vulgar traffic of this world.

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

That is the principal thing: not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

To do is to be.

To be is to do.

The way to do is to be.