Quotes About Existence

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

Say not a word in death's favor; I would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead. -Achilles

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you— it's born with us the day that we are born.

What are the children of men, but as leaves that drop at the wind's breath?

of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.

It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.

For of all creatures that breathe and creep about on the earth, there is none so miserable as man.

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish

There was a world ... or was it all a dream?

Not at all similar are the race of the immortal gods and the race of men who walk upon the earth

As the wind scatters leaves upon the earth, such is the race of men

Nothing is more miserable than man, Of all upon the earth that breathes and creeps.

Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything

Bird life aplenty is found in the sunny air, not all of it significant.

Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again

The latest findings suggest that before the new sphere's crust could even stabilize, the powers of chemical attraction yanked together the first detectable life.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in tome to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.

the future is an infinite succession of presents

Once, however, engaged in the inquiry, I was not very long in finding out the true solution of the matter. It was not color, but crime, not God, but man, that afforded the true explanation of the existence of slavery; nor was I long in finding out another important truth, viz: what man can make, man can unmake. . . .

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.