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Quotes About Existence

The One is the invisible spirit. We should not think of it as a god or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no [3] lord above it. It does not [exist] within anything inferior [to it, since everything] exists within it, [for it established] itself.9
~ Unknown
The spirit animates the soul but the body kills it. The soul kills itself.
~ Unknown
Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Resurrection. Spiritualization of thought; a new and higher idea of immortality, or spiritual existence; material belief yielding to spiritual understanding. (SH 593:9)
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
~ Mary Balogh
And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.
~ Mary Balogh
Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).
~ Mary Beard
those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence
~ Mary Beard
In Rome there was no doctrine as such, no holy book and hardly even what we would call a belief system. Romans knew the gods existed; they did not believe in them in the internalised sense familiar from most modern world religions.
~ Mary Beard
Love is an energy - it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness...Love will never die.
~ Bryce Courtney
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~ Laurence Marks
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'
~ Victor Frankl
To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
~ Sydney Smith
We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Is the word love important? I don't know but for me, you are more important. Do you know why? Because how can I say I love you if you're not here.
~ Anonymous
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
~ William Shakespeare
Even if I use sweet phrases in this description, I cannot even be sure that what I write here is true, precisely because I do not know the Absolute Truth, but what I argue in this pages is a feeling of this tear that is my life, a feeling on this world that will disappear just as it appeared, maybe in fire and ashes or in steam and tar.
~ Sorin Cerin
No Universe can be INDEPENDENT of man and cannot be created outside the man as long as the man knows it!
~ Sorin Cerin
Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
~ Sue Murphy
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words mank and ind. What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
~ Unknown
To fail to love is not to exist at all.
~ Mark Van Doren
No matter where you go, there you are.
~ Anonymous
Boys are like hillucinations, they aren't there, and they never really were.
~ Anonymous
Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.
~ George Bernard Shaw