Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#existence

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #existence




Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book or How you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know more and more while knowing less and less about yourself, this despite 10,000 self-help books, 100,000 psychotherapists, and 100 million fundamentalist Christians or Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest or Why is it possible to learn more in ten minutes about the Crab Nebula in Taurus, which is 6,000 light-years away, than you presently know about yourself, even though you've been stuck with yourself all your life


Walker Percy


#existence #self #self-help #life

Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubbed her hand and she sighed; wasn’t that meaning? Wasn’t that something we could cling to? I could be with this other. I could form no other relation, but maybe her hand in mine was enough, both sufficient and necessary. In Hell there was no sense of place, because all places were the same. Uniform monotony. A place without place. A place without context. But, here, now, I could rub her hand and she would sigh. She was a difference. Perhaps each person was the only difference in all these halls of unchanging ranks of books, kiosks, clocks, and carpet, and that, and that, at least, we had to hold to.


Steven L. Peck


#existence #hell #love #meaning #love

I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.


David Bailey


#existence #helps #i #know #make

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.


Theodor Adorno


#existence #literal #literal sense #most #only

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.


Honore de Balzac


#colors #existence #like #our #pursue

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.


Georges Bataille


#equivalent #evils #existence #god #harmony

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.


Walter Benjamin


#applies #does #existence #go #hidden

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.


Henri Bergson


#creature #endowed #existence #homo #homo sapiens

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.


Ambrose Bierce


#country #depends #every #existence #good

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.


Leon Kass


#choice #existence #our #owe #parents






back to top