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Quotes About Existence

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
~ Henry Miller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
~ Helen Keller
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
~ Seneca
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn! Look to this Day! For it is Life, the very Life of Life. In its brief course lie all the Verities and Realities of your Existence. The Bliss of Growth, The Glory of Action, The Splendor of Beauty; For Yesterday is but a Dream, And To-morrow is only a Vision; But To-day well lived makes Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness, And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope. Look well therefore to this Day! Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
~ Kalidasa
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
~ Albert Camus
Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf.
~ Socrates
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
~ Tennessee Williams
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
~ Anatole France
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
~ Emily Dickinson
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
~ Albert Camus
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human.
~ Tim Hansel
Without music, life would be an error.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
~ Tennessee Williams
If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.
~ Bill Watterson
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
~ Unknown
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
~ Ani DiFranco
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
~ Marcus Aurelius
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
~ Unknown
Life is wasted on the living.
~ Douglas Adams
There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.
~ Unknown
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
~ Douglas Adams
He who fears death enjoys not life.
~ Spanish proverb