1,690 Quotes About Existence

We feel like we are in debt just because we are breathing.

What Ascrobius sought,' the doctor explained, 'was not a remedy for his physical disease, not a cure in any usual sense of the word. What he sought was an absolute annulment, not only of his disease but of his entire existence. On rare occasions he even spoke to me', the doctor said, 'about the uncreation of his whole life.

He ceased to be a person so that he could remain a successful organism.

Those who cling firmly to existence to survive and struggle to death to achieve this without harming anyone deserve infinite respect and appreciation!

What if I had been a pebble, or a stone, or a tree or a dog! What if I had been a cloud or a drop of rain! What if I had not been born! I would have loved to be anything but a human being. To live is to suffer. You are responsible for my being here.

It is impossible that every need is basically spatial, that somewhere the image, the touch, and the voice of those who are no longer alive must still exist.

You cannot defeat the sea - it is too great and too uncaring. You can only surrender to its power...All things that exist live, though maybe they do not measure life as we do. [Chapter 35, page 305]

They have shattered visagesThey have barren eyesThey have frozen feetThey have inner criesThey have choked voicesThey have cold sighsThey have begging-handsThey have tired triesYet......To dream is human!

Her touch removed the presiding air, landed on the quiescent surface of his skin, warm touch diffused, and suffused in lakes of his morosity; dyed his every molecule, placing her in his empty spaces, declaring 'meaning' against the very existence.