Quotes about Existence

It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life's a short summer, man a flower; He dies — alas! how soon he dies!

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.