Quotes About Existence

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.

Breathing is the first act of life, and the last.

All men desire to free themselves solely from death; they do not know how to free themselves from life.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?

I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.

Life without pain has no meaning.

Everyday, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it.

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.