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Quotes About Existence

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
~ Amin Maalouf, Orígenes
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
~ Erin Hunter
The first duty of life is to live.
~ Burt Lancaster
We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.
~ Dean Koontz
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
~ Harmony Korine
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
~ Bertrand Russell
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
~ Daniel Berrigan
No one dies a virgin, Life screws us all
~ Daniel Tosh
The God who loans you life sees your every move, hears each word you speak, knows your every thought. You are seen by God. Noticed. Known.
~ Francis Chan
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
~ Pythagoras
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
~ J. I. Packer
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
~ Isaac Asimov
Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.
~ Michel Houellebecq, Platform
It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
~ Émile Zola
Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.
~ Robert McKee
It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.
~ Tim McIlrath
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
~ Bill Gates
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.
~ Carl Sagan
If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?
~ George Carlin
Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
Death does determine life.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini