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Quotes About Existence

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.
~ Jacqueline du Pre
Life and death are like inhalation and exhalation. They always exist together.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I love knowing that I am simultaneously as big as the universe and yet merely a heap of star dust.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!
~ John Muir
Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.
~ Rumi
My religion is to be alive from LOVE.
~ Rumi
Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.
~ Russell Brand
What is this love that more than all the cursed deadly or any other of its great movers so moves the soul and soul what is this soul that more than by any of its great movers is by love so moved?
~ Samuel Beckett
Knowing that you are nothing is Wisdom, Knowing that you are everything is Love.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I just want to express a generalized and endless feeling of love inside of me directed at every single person who exists or will ever exist.
~ Steve Roggenbuck
My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.
~ Tara Brach
Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.
~ Thomas Hardy
I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.
~ Van Morrison
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
~ Wallace Stevens
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
~ Warren Farrell
You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot: You can love and think, and the Earth cannot!
~ William Brighty Rands
A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.
~ Yann Martel
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.
~ Marthe Bibesco
Don't die for the country! Don't die for the love! Don't die for anything! Always choose life! Under every circumstance this is your real duty in life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
~ Nikki Reed