Quotes About Existence

The only people who do not experience frustrations are up in heaven or in the grave. The rest of us in the land of the living cannot escape frustrations any more than we can escape illness, taxes, or death. To be alive means to be frustrated. Therefore, to seek a life without frustration is like asking to die.

Health is the ability to be fully and consciously aware of all that contributes to your life experience and to effectively exist in that environment. It then means you see yourself as you really are.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.'

I should call it a night, but fuck it I cant resist: this one is for all the niggas from my city tryna diss. Without a response from me you really fail to exist and I love to see you fail, that feeling there is the shit.

Yeah Im the truth, thats right I fuckin said it. The living proof that you aint gotta die to get to heaven.

I keep thinking how young can you die from old age.

It is by the existence of Slavery, exempting so large a portion of our citizens from the necessity of bodily labor, that we have a greater proportion than any other people, who have leisure for intellectual pursuits, and the means of attaining a liberal education.

Equality is a lie," Bane told her. "A myth to appease the masses. Simply look around and you will see the lie for what it is! There are those with power, those with the strength and will to lead. And there are those meant to follow—those incapable of anything but servitude and a meager, worthless existence. "Equality is a perversion of the natural order!

You think God created the world?" he asks me. "Bullshit. Any kind of benevolent and righteous being would never create a fucking world like this. It's impossible. God didn't fucking create the world." Before he walks away completely, he turns back to me one final time, pointing his finger at me. Some people on the beach look over. "Henry," he says, "the Devil created the world when God wasn't looking" He kicks down the little kids' sand castle and goes somewhere with the girls.

she lets us see, she lets us think, she lets us feel, that we can get to a position where we do not have to struggle, we do not have to choose, and that there are ways of being in the world that allow us, in the same breath, to live in our domestic ordinariness and still create.

It's as if, from the vantage point of a verandah bed, that great expanse of sky rolls in over us from the very edge of existence.

Thinking of his forebears, it seemed the actual moment of death was not important to record: you died when those who lived forgot your existence.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf of glucose, bottled blood, machinery to swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

Creation from something is more rational than creation from nothing.

There is not much mystery about death. It's being alive that's the mystery. Death is the normality, life is the exception.

Trees don't ask why they don't move from place to place, nor do they ask any other meaningless questions. But their branches tremble when the birds leave them,

Air is no less heavy because we do not detect its weight.

Rather be alive and be knowned than be dead and forgetten.

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Our pleasures were simple-they included survival.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.