Quotes About Existence

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Did you know that I Exist before the earth And did you know my eyes Are windows to the world.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next

Life is short and so is money

We do not own this place, we are just passengers

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

For all of us who are alive, life is the real issue. Yet so often we judge our existence by the things that happen to usby whether things are going our way or not. Sometimes we feel strongstrong enough to dictate our future. Sometimes we feel that we can make things happen. Then there are times when we feel totally helpless. But through all the dramas and bumps, there is life. There is the very powerful, very existence of every single human being

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Human life must be some form of mistake

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.