Andre Breton Quotes

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

My perspective on life is now to try to play music that reflects that life and death are part of the same coin. And to know about life, we must really examine the function - like death. Life tells you a lot about what death is, not what people say it is.

Life is but a dream for the dead.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life is a state of consciousness.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth ... They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I'm fascinated by the yin and yang of everything.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

In death, as in sleep, I am all things.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.