1,690 Quotes About Existence

Human beings carry a strong mind within a weak body! If it were the other way around, it would have lost the chance of being in the universe for a very long time!

Existence on earth is for the glory of the eternal God.

Technology evolves, language changes, the voice breaks, fate overtakes us.Naming things is never innocent. It is to precipitate them beyond their own existence into the ecstasy of language which is already the ecstasy of their end.We have no more reasons to exist than stones and if one part of our life is in the sun, then, necessarily, the other is in the cold of hell.

We are realizing the true WEIRDNESS and STRANGENESS of EXISTENCE. And if all this springs from some central source or point, that POINT must be very foreign, outlandish, exotic, in other words: ALIEN to us.

History is most important to those without a past.

Under no condition do you need to piddle away any time attempting to explain who you are to those wankers who act as if they’ve pledged to misinterpreting your very existence.

I remember always thinking that life itself doesn’t actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn’t mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.

Home is where your mother lives. Home is where you can go back to. Home is a place where you can stay and no one dared ask you why you are there.

There are so many possible lives, I thought. This one is mine. If a satellite zoomed down to snap a photograph, these windows, saffron-yellow-lit at night, in this building on this street in this city, were the ones behind which my pinprick of an existence was tormentedly ticking away.