Quotes About Existence

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

All that tread, The globe are but a handful to the tribes, That slumber in its bosom.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks toward us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.