Quotes About Existence

The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.

Life is more important than architecture.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

What is life for? Life is for you.

Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.

The world is not a machine. Everything in it is force, life, thought.

We're only here for a short while. And I think it's such a lucky accident, having been born, that we're almost obliged to pay attention.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death. The greatest tragedy is to be alive and not know why

It doesn't matter how much faith you have or don't have [in aliens]. I just don't buy the idea that we're alone. There's got to be some form of life out there.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Is there intelligent life on Earth?

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Of course life has no point. If it had, man would not be free.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.