Quotes About Existence

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).

What is Matter?—Never mind.What is Mind?—No matter.

Dare to be yourself. Life that you live as best version of yourself is the justice done towards your existence.

Life is magical. Being alive in this present moment is magic. Be in awe of this magic and you will understand how priceless this life is!!

Subjecting ourself to the self imposed discipline regimen is the surest way to increase the quality of our existence.

It seems to us that there is only one answer to this question: we must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that everyone, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, the right to live, and that society is bound to share among all, without exception, the means of existence it has at its disposal. We must acknowledge this, and proclaim it aloud, and act upon it.

Equality in mutual relations with the solidarity arising from it, this is the most powerful weapon of the animal world in the struggle for existence. And equality is equity.

Un cristiano, un asceta, pueden reprobar esos deseos de lujo, pero, en realidad, tales bagatelas son precisamente las que rompen la monotonía de la existencia y la hacen agradable. ¿La vida valdría la pena de ser vivida, con todas sus inevitables tristezas, si el hombre no pudiera, fuera del trabajo, procurarse un solo placer de acuerdo con sus gustos individuales?

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.

There is no great Dark Man !!!

You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, 'We are all put into the world for...' because we weren't put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that's fine.

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Al capdavall, només vivim un o dos cops.

Je montrerai comment ce peu de bruit inérieur qui n'est rien, contient tout, [...] comment un cerveau isolé du monde peut se créer un monde.

Men or tigers, sphex or carabs are under the same necessity; to kill or to die, or to shed blood or eat grass. But to eat grass, is not much better than suicide: ask the lambkins.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.