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Quotes About Existence

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
~ Mark Twain
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
~ George Gordon Byron
Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
~ Stanislav Grof
Begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
~ Apollonius of Tyana
Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.
~ Epicurus
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
~ Erich Fromm
I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
~ Mark Twain
There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.
~ Isaac Asimov
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
~ Harold Pinter
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
~ Benjamin Franklin
It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Let's learn to live! Then there is no death, save the transition, when desired. Many live who have never died as yet.
~ Edgar Cayce
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
~ Georges Bataille
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
~ Ram Dass
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
~ Kabir
It takes so many years to learn that one is dead.
~ T. S. Eliot
There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.
~ ELSA BARKER
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?
~ Galway Kinnell
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
~ Emily Bronte