Quotes About Existence

Life is now in session. Are you present?

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little." The truth is that you can spend your life any way you want, but you can spend it only once.

Helen Keller, author, speaker, and advocate for disabled persons, asserted,Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

People say there are two great days in a person's life: the day you were born and the day you discover why. I

As Nobel prize– winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn noted, "The meaning of earthly existing lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Bu hayatta gerçekten unutman?n yolu o kadar nadir bulunuyor ki, diye düÅŸündü.

I'd arrived after the matinee and still remember an autograph hunter at the stagedoor asking me, 'Are you anybody?' I was tempted to answer him ontologically, but instead told him a white lie, and denied my own existence.)

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

Jerry had indeed something in him that went beyond Rabelaisianism, in that he not only could get an ecstasy of curious satisfaction from the most drab, ordinary, homely, realistic aspects of what might be called the excremental under-tides of existence but he could slough off his loathing for humanity in this contemplation and grow gay, child-like, guileless.

Thus she abides; her Towers forever rising, forever vanishing. Never or Always.

Up is infinite. Down is infinite. Pantheism, dualism, pluralism!

Perhaps I've never known reality as other human beings know it,' he thought. 'My life has been industrious, monotonous, patient. I've carried my load like a camel. And I've been able to do this because it hasn't been my real life at all! My mythology has been my real life.' The

If there is some monstrous consciousness behind all life,' he thought angrily, 'it's responsible for all the horrors! Come

The only thing standing in between you and me is reality.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.

What's worse than being hated is being ignored, because it's like you don't exist at all and your presence is nothing.

Yesterday is long gone for you to worry about, tomorrow may never be yours, but today is precious because it's you here and anything is possible today.

One day I hope to find that tomorrow will not matter. Everything I thought I desired was yesterday. For all I needed was today.

And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them two but in truth; and the hour is most surely coming, so turn away with kindly forgiveness.