Quotes About Being

There is truly only one misfortune: that of not being born.

Maybe she feared there were different ways of being trapped than the ones she already knew.

She had no history and nothing to plan for. It was all over for the time being. She just was.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

only thing worse than being a victim in this world was being a witness.

Okazuje si?, ?e nie ma nic trudniejszego ni? by?. Podejrzewa?em to. Cz?owiek podpiera si? ca?? swoj? krz?tanin?, beznadziejnym poczuciem obowi?zku, pracowito?ci?, która jest tylko tchórzostwem, l?kiem przed samym byciem.

Orientalism is a critique, ornamentalism a theory of being.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

Note that the word 'mute' is regarded by linguists as an onomatopoeic formation referring not to silence but to a certain fundamental opacity of human being, which likes to show the truth by allowing to be seen hiding.

At what point does one say of a man that he has become unreal? He hugged his overcoat closer and tried to assemble in his mind Heidegger's argument about the use of moods. We would think ourselves continuous with the world if we did not have moods. It is state-of-mind that discloses to us (Heidegger claims) that we are beings who have been thrown into something else.

Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment.

Home, Sabrina thought, was not a place, but a state of being, a meeting of minds and hearts. Home was the one's strength balancing the other's weakness. Home was the instinctive knowledge of when and where to listen or speak, to hug or hold, to stroke or kiss. Home was the person who completed you in the way only heaven could ordain.

I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life. I was profoundly affected by meeting him. I think he is an outstanding human being.

Expectation loiters in the DNA of every sentient being; when you tell yourself or a loved one, 'Don't get your hopes up,' you're fighting ancient genetic programming.

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.

De hecho, lo raro y excepcional es estar vivo.

My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

By day I am nothing, by night I am I.

O meu misticismo é não querer saber. É viver e não pensar nisso.

To live is to not think.

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.