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3. “A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility – alive, with the qualifications of the dead – dead, with the propensities of the living – an anomaly on the face of the earth – being very calm, yet breathless.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Irrascibility, Existence, Contradiction, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Human Nature
9. “A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.” Arthur Schopenhauer Existence, Astonishment, Mortality, Human Condition, Philosophical Reflection
24. “All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker – no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential.” Hermann Hesse Duality, Existence, Opposites, Balance, Humanity, Complexity
25. “All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.” Hermann Hesse Existence, Duality, Contrast, Philosophical Dichotomy, Human Nature, Life’s Paradoxes
Existence Quotes by Famous Authors
3. “A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility – alive, with the qualifications of the dead – dead, with the propensities of the living – an anomaly on the face of the earth – being very calm, yet breathless.”
Edgar Allan Poe Irrascibility, Existence, Contradiction, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Struggle, Human Nature
9. “A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Existence, Astonishment, Mortality, Human Condition, Philosophical Reflection
24. “All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover or thinker – no breath could both be in and out, none could be man and wife, free and yet orderly, knowing the urge of life and the joy of intellect. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally precious and essential.”
Hermann Hesse Duality, Existence, Opposites, Balance, Humanity, Complexity
25. “All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.”
Hermann Hesse Existence, Duality, Contrast, Philosophical Dichotomy, Human Nature, Life’s Paradoxes
