Quotes About Existence

The existence of truth is the foundation of intelligence; the fountain of love is the foundation of benevolence; the beginning of movement is the foundation of courage.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.

I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.

Death is not warden of life, not thief, nor enemy — but Life's most equal partner.

[I]s there anyone so foolish, even though he is young, as to feel absolutely sure that he will be alive when evening comes?

The first breath is the beginning of death.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

Fear of death is fear of life— and fear of life is fear of all that is.

Man, bitterly examined, is merely a vehicle for units of nourishing combustion...

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived — forwards.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

The lightning bug is brilliant, But he hasn't any mind; He blunders through existence With his headlight on behind... But the measuring worm is different, When he starts after pelf, He stretches to the limit, And then he humps himself.

The great object of life is Sensation — to feel that we exist — even though in pain — it is this "craving void" which drives us to Gaming — to Battle — to Travel — to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.

The finite is the shadow of God.

Some people talk about finding God — as if He could get lost.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

When we lose God, it is not God who is lost.

Golf is long, and life is fleeting...

laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

I like people who don't take life too seriously but who do take very seriously the gratitude for being alive.

...the question isn't whether you're happy or unhappy but alive or dead.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.