Human Existence Quotes - Page 9

• Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

  Dean Koontz

  Daughter, Men, People

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• El kitsch excluye de su ámbito todo lo que es esencialmente inaceptable en la existencia humana.

  Milan Kundera

  Kitsch, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Existence

  "La insoportable levedad del ser" de Milan Kundera, traducido por Michael Henry Heim, (Sexta Parte: La Gran Marcha), 1984.

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• Se cuenta que Sakyamuni [el Buda histórico] desestimó una vez como de poca importancia una hazaña de levitación por parte de un discípulo, y lloró de compasión por un yogui junto al río que había pasado veinte años de su existencia humana aprendiendo a caminar sobre el agua, cuando el barquero podría haberle llevado al otro lado por una pequeña moneda.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Tomado, Años, Ríos

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• The problem of money dogs our steps throughout the whole of our lives, exerting a pressure that, in its way, is as powerful and insistent as any other problem of human existence. And it haunts the spiritual search as well.

  Jacob Needleman

  Spiritual, Dog, Powerful

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• The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

  Julian Sands

  Yards, Mumbai, Bombay

  "Biografía/ Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• El progreso se mide por la riqueza y la intensidad de la experiencia, por una comprensión más amplia y profunda del significado y el alcance de la existencia humana.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Literature, Intensity

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). "Escritos escogidos: poesía y crítica".

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• I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.

  Scott Weiland

  Appreciation, Art, Light

  Scott Weiland (2011). “Not Dead & Not for Sale: A Memoir”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being, a concession to the blunder of creation itself. We should be able to do better, and we can. To have our egos killed off is second-best to killing off death and all the squalid byplay that flitters around it. So let all lands be small, and grower smaller and smaller until no lands are left where any human footstep need press itself upon the earth.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Land, Ego, Needs

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• Nuestra crisis ecológica actual, la mayor amenaza práctica para nuestra existencia humana a medio y largo plazo, tiene mucho que ver, dirían los religiosos, con nuestra incapacidad para pensar que el mundo existe en relación con el misterio de Dios, y no sólo como un enorme almacén de cosas que utilizar para nuestra conveniencia.

  Rowan Williams

  Religioso, Pensamiento, Largo

  Rowan Williams (2007). "Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief", p.50, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

  Erik Naggum

  Purpose, Existence, Humans

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• Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Dream, Sex, Sight

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• Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Imperfect, Tense, Existence

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• Sin contrarios no hay progresión. La atracción y la repulsión, la razón y la energía, el amor y el odio, son necesarios para la existencia humana.

  William Blake

  Amor, odio, energía

  El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno' (1790-3) 'El argumento'

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• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  Dave Rodgers

  Truth, Ideas, Water

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• Jesus came to reveal God to us. He is the defining word on God—on what the heart of God is truly like, on what God is up to in the world, and on what God is up to in your life. An intimate encounter with Jesus is the most transforming experience of human existence. To know him as he is, is to come home. To have his life, joy, love, and presence cannot be compared. A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. To be mistaken about him is the saddest mistake of all.

  John Eldred

  Jesus, Mistake, Home

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• One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Sorrow, Alive

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.24, Penguin

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• Speak the truth.
  Speak it loud and often, calmly but insistently,
  and speak it, as the Quakers say, to power.
  Material accumulation is not the purpose of human existence.
  All growth is not good.
  The environment is a necessity, not a luxury.
  There is such a thing as enough.

  Donella Meadows

  Luxury, Growth, Purpose

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• The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Light, Discovery

  The Guardian, June 3, 1988.

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• When we three spoke ourselves into human existences the Son of God, we became fully human. We also chose to embrace all the limitation that this entailed. Even though we have always been present in this created universe, we now became flesh and blood. It would be like this bird (a jay), whose nature it is to fly, choosing to only walk and remain grounded. He doesn't stop being a bird, but it does alter his experience of life significantly.

  William P. Young

  Son, Blood, Bird

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• En última instancia, la fe es la única clave del universo. El sentido último de la existencia humana y las respuestas a las preguntas de las que depende toda nuestra felicidad no pueden encontrarse de ninguna otra manera.

  Thomas Merton

  Keys, Finals, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.130, New Directions Publishing

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• Yes, I'm often reminded of her, and in one of my array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt - an immense leap of an attempt - to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.

  Markus Zusak

  Pockets, Stories, Legion

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• These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts.

  Louis Pasteur

  Success, Journey, Doors

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• Oh my God!" said one of the Ambers. "Is this not the worst trip ever? Did you see the snow?" She was a sharp one, this Amber. What would she notice next? The train? The moon? The hilarious vagaries of human existence? Her own head?

  Maureen Johnson

  Moon, Snow, Amber

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.19, Penguin

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• Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.

  Aberjhani

  Amor, Espiritual, Hombres

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.

  Aberjhani

  Writing, Reality, Mirrors

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.4, Lulu.com

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