Quotes About Existence

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

Life delights in life.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.

What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Beyond happiness and unhappiness is truth. Truth is not affected by anything in the relative world. Truth is the unifying aspect of existence.

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

Happiness is the object and design of our existence.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.