Quotes About Existence

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.

Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

No one here gets out alive.

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Education is the sum total of one's experience, and the purpose of higher education is to widen our experiences beyond the circumscribed existence or our own daily lives.

I may not believe in life after death, but what a gift it is to be alive now.

Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.

I Used To Believe In Reincarnation, But That Was In a Past Life.