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Quotes About Existence

How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.
~ Jodi Picoult
And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
~ Jodi Picoult
Love is not an equation... It is not a contract, and it's not a happy ending. It is the slate under the chalk and the ground buildings rise from and the oxygen in the air.
~ Jodi Picoult
Stories are all around us, caught in the throats of the strangers you walk past and scrawled on the pages of locked diaries. They're in love letters that were never sent and between the lines of every conversation ever spoken. Just because your story's not written down doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
~ Jodi Picoult
You can't be real, Delilah murmurs. Says who? I ask. Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?
~ Jodi Picoult
Time is an optical illusion-- never quite as solid or strong as we think it is.
~ Jodi Picoult
You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.
~ Jodi Picoult
After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.
~ Jodi Picoult
Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?
~ Jodi Picoult
Ancient Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.
~ Jodi Picoult
I want to believe there's a God. Because I sure as hell know there's a devil.
~ Jodi Picoult
When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?
~ Jodi Picoult
Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.
~ Jodi Picoult
...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It couldn't last. Everyone was just killing time. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
~ Michael Grant, Gone
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Let no body lie you that there is a future other than a moment you are able to walk and talk.
~ Auliq Ice
The single life is bearable to me only through my work in science, but for the long term, it would be very bad if I had to make do without a very young person next to me.
~ Werner Heisenberg
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
~ Doris Lessing
My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.
~ April Gornik
Nothing is Real; it's a Cosmic Drama. We are just Actors; we Come and we Go. There will be Laughter; there will be Tears. Such is the Cosmic Show.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
Whenever life sucks, remember youre going to die someday. So, any day above ground is a good day.
~ Unknown
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
~ Storm Jameson
Refined are your qualities, Loyalty leads to Royalty, through all aspects of Existence, never did I need any material items to say I am true to you.
~ Unknown