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Quotes About Existence

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence
~ Peter Steele
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It is not a choice of life, it is a choice of death. If this is life, I'd rather die.
~ Ferdinand Marcos
I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.
~ Henry Scott Holland
Once you are born in this world you're old enough to die.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
~ Iggy Pop
As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death is simply a break in our linear stream of consciousness.
~ Robert Lanza
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
~ William Butler Yeats
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.
~ Zhuangzi
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
~ Desmond Morris
The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The real you is timeless and beyond life and death.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there's only death
~ Ted Hughes
Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
~ Brian Swimme
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.
~ Franz Bardon
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
~ Walt Whitman
Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!
~ Omar Khayyam
She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
~ Jack Kevorkian
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
~ D. H. Lawrence
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.
~ Isabel Allende, Paula
Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.
~ Immanuel Wallerstein