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Quotes About Existence

We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.
~ George Orwell, 1984
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
~ Annie Besant
The journey of life is a mental one, which is taking place in the sea of illusion.
~ Neville Goddard
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.
~ Gautama Buddha
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
~ Seneca the Younger
What sort of god would deliberately create a world in which his creatures must eat one another to live?
~ Nel Noddings
You know, they are fooling us, there is no God.
~ Joseph Stalin
The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.
~ Scott Cunningham
Time is the eternal now, seen through the narrow slit of the mind.
~ Rupert Spira
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
~ Albert Camus
All you need is time... and you have it... NOW
~ Neville Goddard
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.
~ Tony Parsons
Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
~ Joseph Campbell
I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.
~ Richard Dawkins
Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.
~ Marcus Aurelius
If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
~ K.J. Parker, The Hammer
I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.
~ Laurence Sterne
[I'm] almost positive there is no God.
~ Sarah Silverman
The supernatural does not exist.
~ Camille Flammarion
Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?
~ Alan Watts
The Spirit lurks within the Flesh Like Tides within the Sea That make the Water live, estranged What would the Either be?
~ Emily Dickinson