Quotes About Existence

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

It's an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

Spirituality does not mean going away from life. Spirituality means becoming alive in the fullest possible way so you are not just alive on the surface, you are alive to the core.

A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.

I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

Was our life nothing more than a sequence of anonymous screams in a desert of indifferent stars?

Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Death is a very important part of life.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.