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Quotes About Existence

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments
~ Salvador Dali
It's a sad and beautiful world.
~ Jim Jarmusch
With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.
~ Karl Barth
Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
~ Nick Nolte
I am essentially optimistic. Being alive is incredible. Life is extraordinary and beautiful. It can be hard and sad and terrifying, but it's all we've got.
~ James Frey
How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.
~ James Clavell
Everything is so sad and so wonderful.
~ Cloris Leachman
Being is the great explainer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
~ Henry Miller
I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.
~ Louis Agassiz
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
~ William Peter Blatty
If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die
~ Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque
It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone
~ Alane Ferguson
Are all ends of life so sad?
~ Marie of Romania
Living, it can be sad too.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.
~ Jack Kerouac
Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.
~ Cees Nooteboom
The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything
~ David Almond
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
~ Victor Hugo
When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?
~ Toni Morrison
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page of History. It's sad, but that's all you can say about some people.
~ Terry Pratchett