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Quotes About Existence

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.
~ Eugene J. Martin
All we really want in the end is to be connected once again with the Truth of our being, to realize what it is that wears this mask of self.
~ Adyashanti
It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
~ Jack Kerouac
Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.
~ J. M. Coetzee
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds.
~ John Dryden
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
~ Bob Dylan
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Creation is the highest form of Divinity, and your birthright. Truth is, you are creating all the time. The central question in your life is whether you are doing this consciously or unconsciously.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
And the truth of the matter is that death is a mystery to me. I have no opinion on the subject.
~ Oscar Zeta Acosta
If there is any truth to reincarnation, this must be my first trip through, 'cause I don't recognize anything.
~ Hoyt Axton
There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.
~ Helen Keller
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
~ Octavio Paz
Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
~ William Barrett
If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.
~ Douglas Adams
From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth.
~ Albert Camus
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
~ Edward Abbey
The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
~ Khalil Gibran
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
~ Saint Augustine
We belong to this earth. Now I can see the truth ... I love you on this earth of ours. Love me, do!
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
John Lennon, Beatles Lyrics
~ Nothing is real.