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Quotes About Existence

I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
~ Hafez
You are already That which you seek.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.
~ Alice Tisdale Hobart
Be aware of your infinite connection to your source. Know that you're more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood and organs in a skin and hair covered body.
~ Wayne Dyer
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
~ E. M. Forster
In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.
~ Kurt Goldstein
The strangest of our powers Is the courage to live Knowing that we will die, Knowing nothing more true.
~ Naz?m Hikmet
Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage
~ Clarice Lispector
Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.
~ Emily Haines
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
~ Albert Einstein
Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
The courage to be is the most difficult thing for any human being.
~ Cornel West
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.
~ Pearl S. Buck
It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.
~ Gustave Flaubert
They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
~ Al Pacino
Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?
~ Mark Twain
If Allah created you for this world, He would have created you without death.
~ Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
~ Milarepa
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
~ Epicurus
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
~ Tennessee Williams
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish