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Quotes About Existence

Death is more important than life. Life is just the trivial, just the superficial; death is deeper. Through death you grow to the real life, and through life you only reach death and nothing else.
~ Rajneesh
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
~ Frank Herbert
I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
~ John Travolta
Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.
~ Joseph Campbell
The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
~ Mark Whitwell
Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.
~ Gaspar Noe
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth
~ Immanuel Kant
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life is real only then, when "I am".
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end, the more tempting the minute.
~ Theodor Fontane
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
~ Albert Camus
The problem that we, as living organisms, face - and not we only, humans, but any living organism faces - is the management of life.
~ Antonio Damasio
Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.
~ Barnabas
Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.
~ Bruno Schulz
Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.
~ Carl Jung
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.
~ Tom Waits
Until we can comprehend the beguiling beauty of a single flower, we are woefully unable to grasp the meaning and potential of life itself.
~ Virginia Woolf
Life is not about win-and-lose. Life is about being or not being, expressing or not expressing, who you are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
~ Henry Miller
There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.
~ Buzz Aldrin