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Quotes About Existence

Life is first boredom, then fear.
~ Philip Larkin
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
~ Plato
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
~ Quentin Crisp
Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
~ Rajneesh
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.
~ Willard Gaylin
Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life.
~ Roland Barthes
Life begins with an inhale and ends with an exhale. ln between that inhale and that exhale is our life.
~ Sharon Gannon
I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
~ Sylvia Earle
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
~ Thomas Fuller
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
~ Walter Chrysler
Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
~ Frederick Sommer
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
~ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
~ Harvey Keitel
Life is once. Forever.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.
~ John Boyne
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity … I think that's what being really human means.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
~ Dan Savage
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
~ Hedy Lamarr