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Quotes About Existence

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
~ Philip K. Dick
My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.
~ Oscar Levant
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.
~ Randy Pausch
As you learn more and more about the irrelevance of human life to the general mechanism of the universe, the idea of an interested god, becomes increasingly implausible.
~ Steven Weinberg
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Life is nasty, brutish, and short
~ Thomas Hobbes
The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
~ P. D. James
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
~ Raymond Smullyan
Being an atheist frees you up to live this life properly, happily, and fully.
~ Richard Dawkins
All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.
~ Richard Hammond
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.
~ Rick Warren
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
~ Milan Kundera
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
~ Norman Wisdom
Man's life is but a jest, A dream, a shadow, bubble, air, a vapor at the best.
~ George Walter
The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
~ Bernard Berenson
U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.
~ John Lydon
Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
~ Joseph Joubert
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.
~ Farrah Gray
I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa