Quotes About Existence

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

The living are just the dead on holiday

Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death means you are in the third person.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don't exist, not irritating me to death.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.