Quotes About Existence

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness or absurdity.

Without being in constant exchange with the rest of the cosmos, you cannot exist. The idea of individuality is an illusion.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

I experience God as the power of life, the power of love and the ground of being. I don't say that's what God is; I say that's my experience of God.

It needeth us to have knowing of the littleness of creatures and to hold as nought all-thing that is made, for to love and have God that is unmade.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

I love you. And I'm going to keep loving you even after you don't know I exist.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

Our love can't be measured. It just is.

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

No matter what is happening in the world of appearances, beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

He comes as a guest to the feast of existence, and knows that what matters is not how much he inherits but how he behaves at the feast, and what people remember and love him for.

Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

Love is the reason you were born.

The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

Humility is the time that you spend in love with existence.