1,690 Quotes About Existence

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

It was if, in the process of its long and arduous journey from Afghanistan's mines to Europe's canvases, and its painful evolution from barren beginnings, ultramarine had collected and purified all the wisdom of the different worlds it traversed, retaining only what was common to then, and what was most important. This pure, clean color evokes undulating infinity, that delicate moment between day and night, an image of man constantly drifting between existence and non-existence.

Because you don't get to choose your parents, K, and at some point you realise that maybe your parents just aren't able to parent very well, but we exist, and the only choice we've got in the whole situation is whether we're gonna love them anyway. It's as simple and messy and complicated as that

The whole duty of our existence is fear God.

What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave at least songs.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

The hall looked bleak in her absence, like a moonless sky, like the forehead of a Hindu widow.

In the later part of life, I learned that there are few thoughts in everyone’s mind, that are supposed to be preserved like a family heirloom, though they are obsolete, though they aren’t of much use or the significance, just to be placed in a dark corner not to erase their existence.

Though it sounds part serendipitous, part enigmatic, part in control, part intractable, it seems like a game to be played void of the knowledge of rules.