1,690 Quotes About Existence

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are generally disappointed when they figure it out.

Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:—Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

We fail to subjugate a madman so we decide to butcher him out of society. Sanity is a different degree of madness, for what we believe as ‘normal,’ ‘average,’ and ‘polite’ are equally hideous and revolting to the madman on his account. People hate madman out of politic of thought and difference of perspective.

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists.

Time is the essence of existence.

They behaved like the pets that lost their owner. They seemed to be in a never ending whirl of chaos.