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Quotes About Existence

I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again
~ Jackson Browne
A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
~ Ajahn Chah
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
~ Anne Lamott
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
~ Dogen
When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
~ Lee Trevino
No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.
~ D. L. Hughley
The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.
~ Frederick Sommer
I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
~ Charles Bukowski
I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.
~ Gary Kraftsow
The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.
~ Alan Watts
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
~ Charles Bukowski
In a dream thou mayst live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning: Even such is life, and so soon perisheth its memory.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
~ Charles Bukowski
It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored.
~ Stephen Batchelor
For I have known them all already, known them all— Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
~ T. S. Eliot
On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.
~ Art Buchwald
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.
~ Mason Cooley
When you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts, you can be sure you're dead.
~ Herbert Achternbusch
I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.
~ Laurel Nakadate
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Half a page--and the morning is already ancient.
~ Michael Ondaatje