Quotes About Existence

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

Love says, 'I am everything.' Wisdom says, 'I am nothing.' Between these two my life flows.

everything is intertwined in a continuous movement, arising in certain forms that we call bodies or thoughts or feelings, and then dissolving or changing into new forms.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

Much of life cannot be explained, it can only be witnessed.

James Joyce described this relationship in the line, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

Before his death the Buddha asked his disciples to follow the Dharma, not any teacher or tradition. He put no one over the community of monks and nuns. The Dharma was to guide them. So for us, there is no blind belief or blind faith in Buddhism. We simply believe enough in the possibility of liberation and we are wise enough to see the suffering in our existence to have the faith to begin practice.

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

What's the point of a god who never intervenes?

There is love, and everything else is staring into the abyss.

The English department of the spirit—that great quagmire that lurks at the bottom of all of us.