Quotes About Existence

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and that is death!

It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.

One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Life's a very funny proposition, after all.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Man is the measure of all things.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

We create our fate every day we live.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.