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Quotes About Existence

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
~ Georg Simmel
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When we are not sure, we are alive.
~ Graham Greene
At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.
~ Graham Greene
Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.
~ Huangbo Xiyun
Don't talk about death, I've got too much life to live, To many orders to give.
~ Ice Cube
Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life
~ Keith Haring
We possess art lest we perish of the truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.
~ John Fowles, The Collector
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
~ Epicurus
It's natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature.
~ Morrie Schwartz
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
~ Leo Buscaglia
The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
~ Rick Warren
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
~ Nhat Hanh
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
~ John Ortberg
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
~ Joseph Conrad
Life is a four-letter word.
~ Lenny Bruce
Life's greatest reward is life itself
~ Margaret Thatcher
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
~ Anais Nin
Life consists of burning up questions.
~ Antonin Artaud
Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless.
~ Bertrand Russell
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
~ Boris Becker