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Quotes About Existence

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.
~ Natalie Portman
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
~ Voltaire, Candide
You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
~ Franz Grillparzer
The present is a great treasure, live in the present.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
~ William Butler Yeats
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
~ Jean Paul
Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.
~ Louise Bourgeois
We should be in the business of living, not making a living.
~ Lucien Bourjeily
A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.
~ John Marshall
What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.
~ Twyla Tharp
I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.
~ John Lennon
Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing.
~ Marilyn Suttle
I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.
~ Albert Camus, The Fall
In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in business, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.
~ Unknown
Living like this is a full-time business.
~ Unknown
there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.
~ Raymond Carver
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.
~ Gamal Abdel Nasser
It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
~ Charles Darwin
Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
Look, I want to love this world as though it's the last chance I'm ever going to get to be alive and know it.
~ Mary Oliver
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
~ Maynard James Keenan
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
~ Unknown