Quotes About Existence

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

To live at all is miracle enough.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.

Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

You have only to exist as you do and to live your life as best you can.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.