Quotes About Existence

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

Remember, vote for life. It may be your own.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Eternity is the Absolute present.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."

The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

Life, what is it but a dream?