Quotes About Meaning

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn't able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.

Dispretul oamenilor ma intareste, si nu le cer decat o favoare - sa nu insemn nimic in ochii lor.

I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.

Sunt convins c? nu sunt absolut nimic în univers, dar simt c? singura existen?? real? este a mea.

Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.

God does not read.

If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?

Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.

A fi plin de tine insuti nu in sens de orgoliu ci de bogatie a fi chinuit de o infinitate interna si de o tensiune extrema inseamna a trai cu atata intensitate incat simti cum mori din cauza vietii.

Am tr?it întotdeauna cu conÅŸtiinÅ£a neputinÅ£ei de a tr?i. Åži ceea ce mi-a f?cut existenÅ£a suportabil? e curiozitatea de a vedea cum aveam s? trec de la un minut, de la o zi, de la un an la altul.

The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

CîÅŸtig?m în planul conÅŸtiinÅ£ei ceea ce pierdem în planul existenÅ£ei.

Un poet de mare viziune (Baudelaire, Rilke, de ex.) afirm? în dou? versuri mai mult decât un filozof în toat? opera sa.

R?ul, p?r?sind indiferen?a originar?, ?i-a luat Timpul ca pseudonim.

Existenta spiritului este o anomalie in viata.

A voi s? tr?ieÅŸti ca o plant?, s? creÅŸti înr?d?cinat, înflorind ÅŸi uscîndu-te sub soare, în cea mai deplin? inconÅŸtien??, a dori s? fii o parte intim? din fecunditatea p?mîntului, o expresie anonim? a cursului vieÅ£ii este a fi disperat de rosturile ÅŸi sensul omenirii. Åži de ce s? nu schimb cu o floare?

Viata se creeaza in delir si se desface in plictis.

C? s-a spus totul, c? nu mai e nimic de spus — o ÅŸtim, o simÅ£im. Dar ceea ce simÅ£im mai puÅ£in e c? aceast? eviden?? confer? limbajului un statut straniu, chiar îngrijor?tor, care-l elibereaz?. Cuvintele sunt în sfîrÅŸit salvate, pentru c? au încetat s? tr?iasc?.

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