Quotes About Existence

I am all that there is of the most real.

Nowadays, no one believes in evil. It is considered, at most, a mere negation of good. Evil, people say, is done by those who know no better - who are undeveloped - who are to be pitied rather than blamed. But, M. Poirot, evil is real! It is a fact! I believe in Evil as I believe in Good. It exists! It is powerful! It walks the earth!' He stopped. His breath was coming fast. He wiped his forehead with his handkerchief and looked suddenly apologetic. 'I'm sorry. I got carried away.

He's not dead. But I have a feeling he's bored. That's worse.

Mon cher docteur! Do you not think I know the female mentality? The village gossip, it is based always, always on the relations of the sexes. If a man poisons his wife in order to travel to the North Pole or to enjoy the peace of a bachelor existence—it would not interest his fellow-villagers for a minute!

Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing.

i like living. i have sometimes been wildly, dispairingly, acutely misrable, racked with sarrow, but threw it all i still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Brains. Brains. What do we really mean by the term? In your idiom you would say that Jane Wilkinson has the brains of a rabbit. That is a term of disparagement. But consider the rabbit for a moment. He exists and multiplies, does he not? That, in Nature, is a sign of mental superiority.

It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.

We're all mad, dear lady," he said as he ushered her in through the door. "That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity.

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have come to see gains that cannot be reckoned in terms of wealth, and losses that are more damaging than loss of a crop... I look at the River and I see the lifeblood of Egypt that has existed before we lived and that will exist after we die... Life and death, Renisenb, are not of such great account.

But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.

Life is only one of the Great Illusions.

Death is for other people.

Where am I myself, the whole man, the true man? Where am I with God's mark upon my brow?

Everyone must die! That is so, is it not? If it comes quickly from the sky—bouff—like that, it is as well as any other way. One is alive for a time—yes, and then one is dead. That is what happens in this world.

But man was a ridiculous animal anyway....

Such people forget that life and death are the affair of the good God.

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly.

Lydia said sharply: "No. Evil is not only in ones mind — evil exists. You seem to have no consciousness of the evilness in the world. I have. I can feel it.

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?" -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.

It wasn't the circumstances of life they enjoyed, it was life itself—the zest of existence.