Quotes About Existence

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

Embrace the beauty of existence.

I don't want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Suffering just means you're having a bad dream. Happiness means you're having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether.

I wish I had never been born, " she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness, " said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

This planet is a "Hell" and there is no "Heaven" up there. So, learn to be "Happy in Hell".

Happiness: the feeling of being alive.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Unhappy! of course you'll be unhappy. Who the devil are you that you shouldn't be unhappy, like the mother that bore you?

While I was not entirely satisfied with the circumstances of my existence, I felt like the possibility of improvement still existed. That I could make happiness happen.

Life has only three states-Happiness, Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

Very happy or unhappy, people disappear.

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.