Quotes About Existence

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,

the strangest life exists in the cracks

It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

You only ever have a moment to live, this moment, and yet we all tend to live in the past or in the future.

Unhappiness itself is not the problem—it is an inherent and unavoidable part of being alive. Rather, it's the harshly negative views of ourselves that can be switched on by unhappy moods that entangle us. It is these views that transform passing sadness into persistent unhappiness and depression

It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever.

Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment. (From 'Fukan zazengi')

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, head, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, lead, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.