1,690 Quotes About Existence

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

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

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already “there” - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one’s breath - and yet it is nowhere.

Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.