1,690 Quotes About Existence

Capturing moments with a net of red butterflies.

This is bold--existing.

How gloomy would be these mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he shall never die; that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on for ever. Those that lie here stretched before us, the wise and the powerful of ancient times, warn us to remember the shortness of our present state; they were, perhaps, snatched away while they were busy, like us, in the choice of life.

Slavery is against existence.

Asiatisk i Vælde er Angsten.Den er modnet med umodne Aar.Og jeg føler det dagligt i Hjærtet,som om Fastlande dagligt forgaar.Men min Angst må forløses i Længselog i Syner af Rædsel og Nød.Jeg har længtes mod Skibskatastroferog mod Hærværk og pludselig Død.Jeg har længtes mod brændende Byerog mod Menneskeracer på Flugt,mod et Opbrud, som ramte Alverden,og et Jordskælv, som kaldtes Guds Tugt.

When you're in love with someone, you want to talk about every single thing in existence with them- while simultaneously saying nothing and just enjoying their presence.

We swim against―our own sweet moments― lappingthe hours in expanded pleasuresthat swagger away― our wilting sentience―pretending to be― existent―

Everything is beautiful in its absurdity.

Only assertions that we can verify make sense. A sentence such as “God is here” cannot be verified because we cannot prove God's existence by empirical means. Hence this sentence is senseless.