Quotes About Existence

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

The leading cause of death is birth.

We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

The belief that consciousness extends beyond death is surely to put more belief in the permanence of self, not less. That seems to me a comfort that you're allowing yourself.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

The only certainty is death.