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Quotes About Existence

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the world.
~ Margaret Atwood
My work is loving the world.
~ Mary Oliver
I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.
~ Peter Ustinov
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
~ Robert Pinsky
All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.
~ Stephen Hawking
Any possible universe could be explained as the work of some sort of designer. Even a universe that is completely chaotic...could be supposed to have been designed by an idiot.
~ Steven Weinberg
We live in an ironic society where even play is turned into work. But the highest existence is not work; the highest level of existence is play.
~ Conrad Hyers
There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.
~ Leopold Kronecker
Consisting of immortal Truth, you are immortal. The attainment of Truth is immortality, and to do the work of Truth is Nirvana.
~ Paul Carus
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.
~ Richard Bach
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
~ Mary Oliver
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
~ Milan Kundera
The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.
~ Christopher Lasch
How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!
~ Daniel Defoe
Equality is what does not exist among mortals.
~ e. e. cummings
The only incontrovertible fact of my work is the importance of life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.
~ Garrison Keillor
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
~ George MacDonald
One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin