1,690 Quotes About Existence

These two windows are my links with the outside world, the world of the rabble. But on the wall inside my room hangs a mirror in which I look at my face, and in my circumscribed existence that mirror is a more important thing than the world of the rabble-men which has nothing to do with me.

A man dies... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

We live and then we stop living. We exist and then we stop existing. That means I only get one chance to do a good job. I want to do a good job.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had

My biggest mistake is that I consider myself as the subject. The fact is, I am only an object of existence. My limitations hinder my view. My ignorance keeps me away from the truth.

È bizzarro e ingiusto, disse Gauss, il fatto che si nasce in una determinata epoca e, volenti o nolenti, vi si resta imprigionati: un esempio calzante della penosa accidentalità dell'esistenza. Così uno ha un vantaggio spropositato rispetto al passato e diventa lo zimbello del futuro.

Love is a prerequisite for existence.

Il faut nommer les choses pour qu’elles existent, sinon elles ne sont qu’une au milieu des autres, et tu ne les vois pas.

Il avait à peine besoin de disparaître pour ne plus exister.