Quotes About Existence

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life is suffering.

Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.

Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?

We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Death is life in reverse.

The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death...

Life in the now, is gone tomorrow The only way to know is die Then to reveal its convenient lie.

The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky.