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Quotes About Existence

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
~ C. S. Lewis
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
~ Azar Nafisi
In management, the first concern of the company is the happiness of people who are connected with it. If the people do not feel happy and cannot be made happy, that company does not deserve to exist.
~ Kaoru Ishikawa
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
~ Blaise Pascal
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.
~ Epicurus
People sometimes fail to live because they are always preparing to live.
~ Alan Watts
Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.
~ Ram Dass
Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
~ Frederic Chopin
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
~ Sigmund Freud
We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank
Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness
~ Mooji
Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.
~ Thomas Hardy
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
~ Albert Camus
we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
~ Paulo Coelho
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
~ Rosalia de Castro
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
~ Meher Baba
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
~ Sergei Dovlatov
The single fact of existing is already a true happiness.
~ Blaise Cendrars