Quotes About Existence

I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.

I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours.

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

All human beings have bodies. All bodies are mortal. Yours, too, is one of these bodies.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

There are people who often, say, 'Racism doesn't exist anymore.' And, 'Nobody's racist anymore.' And, to that I say, all you have to do is go on Youtube and read the comments. That will tell you just how racist people will be if they can't be called out on it.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.

I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Anyone who has trouble imagining causality as magical and uncanny need only consider the existence of children.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.