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Quotes About Existence

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is life Itself. No, words can exactly describe life, but living life truly defines it.
~ Unknown
Life is not all about living....it all about establishing your purpose...its all about pleasing the giver of life; God.
~ Unknown
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
They say life is a gift, and I say waking up everyday is an opportunity to live it.
~ Unknown
God has given everyone a purpose for their life. We all have talents and abilities to make an impact on this world. I think its important for all of us to take time to discover our passions and dreams. We all want to know why we exist.
~ Michael Barbarulo
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
~ Toni Morrison
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
~ Erich Fromm
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
~ Unknown
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
~ Unknown
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
~ Unknown
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
~ Joseph Campbell
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
~ Paul Kurtz
The meaning of life is that it stops.
~ Franz Kafka
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
~ Joseph Campbell
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
~ Albert Camus
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
~ Aristotle
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
~ Michael Jackson
If only for a second, stop and appreciate the fact that you're alive.
~ Unknown
Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.
~ Elliott Erwitt
The fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years. Once the land is gone, then we are gone too.
~ Unknown
I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did.
~ Mary Doria Russell
Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…
~ Mary Downing Hahn