Quotes About Existence

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

I am the only real truth I know.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to it for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born, die, and testify.

And so make life, death and that vast forever One grand, sweet song.

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.

The soul ... is audible, not visible.

Now that I'm here, where am I?

For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Truth has no beginning.