Quotes About Existence

LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The lie is a condition of life.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

People living deeply have no fear of death.