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Quotes About Existence

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.
~ Susan Glaspell
I was born tomorrowtoday I liveyesterday killed me
~ Unknown
we're just paper on a shelf, in the end
~ Unknown
You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.
~ Unknown
Death twitches my ear. "Live " he says "I am coming".
~ Unknown
It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.
~ Unknown
If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.
~ Robert Burns
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If this is dying I don't think much of it.
~ Lytton Strachey
Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
~ Archibald MacLeish
There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
~ Charles Mackay
Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live and is full of misery. He cometh up and is cut down like a flower he fleeth as it were a shadow and never continueth in one stay.
~ Anonymous
We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.
~ Marcus Manilius
The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.
~ Dean Cavanagh
Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
~ Harold Kushner
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
~ Albert Camus
I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.
~ Roger Penrose
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
~ Charlie Chaplin
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.
~ Paul Davies
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.
~ Antony Flew
When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
~ Joseph Priestley
The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.
~ Hugh Ross