The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be.

It is life that fights and struggles and rages; life, that tears at you in its last agonizing throes to hold on, even if but for one futile instant longer… Whereas I, I come softly...

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

Nature never remembers, that’s why she’s beautiful.

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If...

Occasionally I glanced at the big blue cradle of civilization hanging in the sky, remembered for the fiftieth or sixtieth or one hundredth time that none of this had any right to be happening, and...

he woman Caeiro fell in love with. I have no idea who she was, and I intend to never find out, not even out of curiosity. There are things of which the soul refuses to...

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

real”.

The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving ‘a-theism’ the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms of common religious propaganda, ‘deny the existence of God.’ It affirmed that God...

Unni will come, if not today, then tomorrow. Today is nearly gone, but other todays stir fecund in the word tomorrow, many other todays when this one has lapsed from existence. And because I think...

With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn’t exist at all.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

The truth is that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas. After...

There’s always been some moron-who usually went by the name of ‘producer’ – who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

As our mother earth is a mere speck in the sunbeam in the illimitable universe, so man himself is but a tiny grain of protoplasm in the perishable framework of organic nature. [This] clearly indicates...

It’s idiotic, it’s crazy. If you die and then you’re just nothing, there isn’t any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn’t ready to be...

IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment

I will say nothing… against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have...

The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there’s always more than this. There’s always something you don’t know.

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the...

But the fact is, no one knew the existence of this universal force, though it was there along with the Earth! The force was operating even when man was unaware of it.

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything.

The current of the world has its boundaries, otherwise it could have no existence, but its purpose is not shown in the boundaries which restrain it, but in its movement, which is toward perfection. The...

The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His...

The interest I have in believing a thing is not a proof of the existence of that thing.[Voltaire’s response to Pascal’s Wager]

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events...

I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know how...

This evening, which I have tried to spirit away, is a strange burden to me. While time moves on, while the day will soon end and I already wish it gone, there are men who...

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philosophical wonder. The man who has never at any time felt consciously struck by the extreme strangeness and...

If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?

If I wouldn’t have looked under the hood, I’d have never noticed the problem. But as far as I know, the problem didn’t exist before I opened the hood. So did I cause the problem...

Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

At last she sighed.”But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only of some use to someone, we should...

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

The horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist because they do not exist at all. The mere realization of their non-existence reveals that the horns of a rabbit do not inherently exist; therefore, the...

The existence of time is so important in natural sciences.

I’m only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence!

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.

no”, we create a separation from life and begin to create dreams and expectations of how it should be. We begin to live in the memories of the past and in the fantasies of the...

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn’t know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

When I went on anyway, my body began to grow cold, and I thought I was dead. Face pale, my dead self sat down on a bench and began to turn toward my real self,...