Quotes About Existence

Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

Life is not something that happens to us, Life happens through us.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

To be alive, to able to see, to walk...it's all a miracle. I have adapted the technique of living life from miracle to miracle.

The existence of nuclear weapons presents a clear and present danger to life on Earth.

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Our planet is poorly equipped for delight. One must snatch gladness from the days that are. In this life it's not difficult to die. To make life is more difficult by far.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.