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Quotes About Existence

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.
~ Prem Rawat
We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
~ Joni Mitchell
And maybe there's no peace in this world, for us or for anyone else, I don't know. But I do know that, as long as we live, we must remain true to ourselves.
~ Spartacus
Only the present moment contains life.
~ Nhat Hanh
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
~ C. S. Lewis
The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
~ Colman McCarthy
If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.
~ Peter Wessel Zapffe
The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
~ Robert Jordan
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
~ Fran Lebowitz
In peace and silence, the skin of the 'I' dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.
~ Brad Pitt
Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Know that life can only be found in the present moment.
~ Nhat Hanh
Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.
~ Kirk Douglas
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
~ Annie Dillard
God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.
~ Heraclitus
I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?
~ Hannah Hart
What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
~ Elie Wiesel
You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness
~ Mooji
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.
~ Brad Pitt
The babe is at peace within the womb, the corpse is at rest within the tomb. We begin in what we end.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are
~ David Levithan
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.
~ Dennis Kucinich