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Quotes About Existence

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear
~ Gayle Forman
Dying is easy. Living is hard
~ Gayle Forman
Morir es fácil. Lo duro es vivir.
~ Gayle Forman
I don't know if once you die you remember things that happened to you when you were alive. It makes a certain logical sense that you wouldn't. That being dead will feel like before you were born, which is to say, a whole lot of nothingness.
~ Gayle Forman
Time has a weight to it, and right now I can feel it heavy over me.
~ Gayle Forman
I recently lost someone. Someone so integral to me, it's like a part of me is gone. And now I don't know how to be anymore. If there's even a me without her. It's like she was my sun, and then my sun went out. Imagine if the real sun went out. Maybe there'd still be life on Earth, but would you still want to live here? Do I still want to live here?
~ Gayle Forman
Ali sada shva?am da je umrijeti lako. Teško je živjeti.
~ Gayle Forman
I just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not to be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more I can't help think what if I hadn't been born in the first place...
~ Gayle Forman
TIME HAS A WEIGHT TO IT AND RIGHT NOW I FEEL IT HEAVY ON ME.
~ Gayle Forman
You never knew, did you? Maybe not knowing didn't have to be so terrifying. Maybe it could just be life. "When
~ Gayle Forman
OrI just want out. Out of my existence. I find myself wishing that a lot lately. Not be dead. Or kill myself. Or any of that kind of stupid shit. It's more that I can't help thinking that if I'd never been born in the first place, I wouldn't be facing those sixty-seven nights, I wouldn't be right here, right now, having just endured that conversation with her.
~ Gayle Forman
They can't explain it. But that doesn't make it any less real.
~ Gayle Forman
It makes me happy to imagine them drinking tea or going to the movies together, still connected to each other by the invisible chain of a family that no longer exists.
~ Gayle Forman
What if Shakespeare had it wrong? What if Shakespeare—and Hamlet—were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
~ Gayle Forman
To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember every word. I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words right and collect my A.
~ Gayle Forman
What if the real question is not whether TO be, but HOW to be?
~ Gayle Forman
Me ayudó a darme cuenta de que ser no es lo que importa, sino cómo ser
~ Gayle Forman
To be, or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. […] But what if Shakespeare - and Hamlet - were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
~ Gayle Forman
Aion" may mean "age" in the New Testament and it may mean "world.
~ Geerhardus Vos
Life exists because there's death, and joy because there's sorrow.
~ Geetanjali Shree
A fair sprinkling of fools in the world is as enlivening as a pinch of salt in a loaf of bread. They give a relish to life, and flavour with a brisk spicery of nonsense what would otherwise be oppressively flat. Civilized existence, if it were always cooked up and served to us by Mrs. Grundy herself, would be unpalatable enough; but luckily her infallible recipes are not always carried out, and a few plums and cloves get into her pudding.
~ Gelett Burgess
I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist
~ Gena Showalter
He gulped. "No, we aren't done chatting. Why aren't you afraid of dying?" "Everything and everyone has an end," she said. "I mean, you're going to be killed soon and though I loathe the thought, you don't see me crying about that, either. I know what will happen, and I accept what cannot be changed. I'm trying to live while I can. While WE can. Dwelling on the bad is what destroys all hints of joy.
~ Gena Showalter
Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.
~ Gena Showalter