Existence Quotes

“To exist is to be in the world, to be with others, to be for something.”

“The choice is the privileged category of human existence.”

“Things are there, why should I explain them?”

“Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that there is a coming into being and a passing away; for nothing comes into being or passes away, but there is a mingling and a separation of things that are.”

“World, world, vast world, if my name were Raimundo, it would be a rhyme, it would not be a solution.”

“We are born into a world of words.”

“The Universe is the way it is because we are here.”

“I was born with a scream.”

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.”

“For from what does not exist, it is impossible for anything to come into being, and it is impossible and unheard of for what exists to be destroyed.”

“If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.”

“The existence of life in the Universe is not a surprise, but the existence of a universe in which life can exist is a surprise.”

“But I have felt that to be a person is to be in a situation.”

“We are ghosts of ourselves, and the world is a ghost of itself.”

“The sovereign being is the one who is, as it were, dissolved in the moment.”

“Without doubt, whatever is, is.”

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

“The bodies are all gone. There's nothing left. But I'm still here.”

“To be alive is to be mad.”