Existential Reflection Quotes

“Once, long ago, I heard the mermaids singing, but I do not think they will sing to me now.”
― Toby R. Beeny, Lilacs from the Dead Land: A Narrative of Nostalgia, Identity, and Dreams

“Finding More Fallen Out Hair On Your Pillow, Watching Your Favorite Stuffed Bread Disappear From Convenience Stores... The Accumulation Of Those Little Despairs Is What Makes A Person An Adult.” - Nanami”
― Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]

“Finding More Fallen Out Hair On Your Pillow, Watching Your Favorite Stuffed Bread Disappear From Convenience Stores... The Accumulation Of Those Little Despairs Is What Makes A Person An Adult.”
― Gege Akutami, 呪術廻戦 3 [Jujutsu Kaisen 3]

“What changes life is never planned, and that is the true beauty of existence.”
― Liora-Elber H. Rivory, The Art of Connection: Rediscovering Ourselves Through Life’s Unpredictability

“Amidst the gears that imprison,
the soul awakens
when it remembers
it was never made of iron,
but of light —

and the key
has always been within:
consciousness.”
― Phoenix Moon

“Finding More Fallen Out Hair On Your Pillow, Watching Your Favorite Stuffed Bread Disappear From Convenience Stores... The Accumulation Of Those Little Despairs Is What Makes A Person An Adult.” - Nanami”
― Gege Akutami,芥見下々

“The meaning of being alive
is not to choose existence,
but to be present in it.
To inhabit what has been given to you
without reducing yourself to form, name, or role.”
― Zeon Vale

“Nothing in life happens without purpose — even if that purpose remains hidden from us.

— Volodymyr Shablia”
― Володимир Шабля

“Before the Light

South of the Carpathians,
from the castle of eagles —
from the realm of melodious, fleeting syntax,
a Poet with green eyes deepened in forgetting
gently balances the scale of thought;
bearing the rediscovered face of reflection
from a life not yet lived,
imperceptibly wandering
through who knows what drawer
dusty with unknowing,
in the altar of white nights —
before the light
perpetually versified into the stone of eternity,
he propels vistas of unsuspected longing,
in rhythms of ancient asclepiads
blossoming the icon of the beloved woman.”
― Dumitru Găleșanu

“Nurturing the hope that reading this volume might offer the reader a chance to acquire a more nuanced understanding of his existential role and place within the macro universe — in full harmony with his own cultural spiritual aspirations — in the light of material truth, permanently in a state of germination, an aesthetic feeling marks me and marks itself: celebrating the “cosmos” of my verse, with an emotional aura from beginning to end — the final interpreter will be able to fully decipher its meaning… essentially devoid of shadows:

Traveler of truth,
a veiled avatar of being
from star dust —
wrapped in azure — he uttered:
Who — what is the Great God?!
What is the All Being?...
immortal Spirit:
to You, eternal, I bow!,
Here and Now —
on the promised earth —
forever the poem of love
foundations its own Being,
Amen!”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , Ante*Metafizica: antologie lirică

“In / the breath / of cold mirrors / from the transcendent, / on the long road toward truth / hanging by barely a strand of hair, / the Self of the world — auto existent — / slips into the soul the calling of the infinity of being, / like a distant stellar zombie — unimaginable / through the wondrous cosmic mosaic. (The last stanza of the calligram poem Axiom of Infinity)”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , Axiomele infinității / Assiomi dell’infinità