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Quotes About Existence

White exists on the periphery of life. Bleached bones connect us to death, but the white of milk and eggs, for example, speaks to us of life.
~ Kenya Hara
Art comes from life, not from the studio
~ Marina Abramovic
Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.
~ Harivanshrai Bachchan
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.
~ P. D. James
One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.
~ Philip Larkin
The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life
~ Richard Bandler
Love is the measure of life; only so far as we love do we really live.
~ John Burroughs
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.
~ Stephanie Mills
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
~ William James
People complain that life is short,for me it seems very long.
~ Alija Izetbegovic
The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.
~ Aristotle
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
~ Jack London
I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath
~ Dante Alighieri
The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.
~ Daphne du Maurier
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
~ Edward Albee
If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.
~ William S. Burroughs
There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.
~ Urijah Faber
To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing in life is trivial. Life is whole wherever and whenever we touch it, and one moment or event is not less sacred than another.
~ Vimala Thakar
The greatest gift we have is the gift of life.
~ Mike Ditka