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Quotes About Existence

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.
~ Kevin Carter
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
~ Viola Davis
Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?
~ Bo Burnham
Life is but a day at most.
~ James Drummond Burns
Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.
~ Patanjali
No human being...is ever conceived outside God's will or ever conceived apart from God's image. Life is a gift from God created in His own image.
~ John F. MacArthur
I choose to live, not just exist.
~ James Hetfield
The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.
~ Pythagoras
I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!
~ Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.
~ Ogden Nash
Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux
~ Erik Satie
Every one of us lives this life just once, if we are honest, to live once is enough.
~ Greta Garbo
Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
~ Al Pacino
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
~ Brian Cox
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~ Thomas Wolfe
to live is not just living but to live with life
~ Jessica Jung
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
~ George Santayana
Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.
~ Shakuntala Devi
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
~ Thornton Wilder
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
~ Hugh Leonard
There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj