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Quotes About Existence

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
~ Thomas Browne
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
~ Blaise Pascal
I rebel; therefore I exist.
~ Albert Camus
Life comes only from life.
~ Louis Pasteur
Life—God—in its essence is vibration.
~ Edgar Cayce
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~ Luis Barragan
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
~ Alan Watts
God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not your real life.
~ Joel S. Goldsmith
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Life is a winking light in the darkness.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
~ Epicurus
When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist
~ Friedrich Schiller
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
~ Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A room without books is like a life without meaning.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
~ Samuel Beckett
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
~ Bertrand Russell
In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.
~ Pedro Arrupe
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
~ Agnes Martin
Life is just a moment of time and it pass by
~ Black Thought
We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
~ Ang Lee
You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.
~ John Grisham
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
~ Dave Eggers