Quotes About Existence

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

Come out of the circle of time / And into the circle of love.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy

It's crazy, I'm thinking, just knowing that the world is round, And here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right-side-up or upside-down, And is this real or am I dreaming?

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it fin

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love; all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Love is the river of life in the world.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.