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Quotes About Existence

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
~ Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll
Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.
~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Everyone has a watched life. Everyone is both the observer and the observed.
~ Akiane Kramarik
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
~ Alan Moore
There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
~ Albert Camus
Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.
~ Alex Garland
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
~ Andrew McMahon
Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.
~ Brett Dennen
We are all dying of life.
~ John Jakes
Everything you encounter is your life.
~ Kosho Uchiyama
Life and death are one thread.
~ Laozi
Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.
~ Mark Twain
Mathematically speaking, it seems impossible that there isn't life out our planet. If you flick on the news, it certainly seems like we have aliens among us.
~ Ryan Reynolds
Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.
~ Soen Nakagawa
All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Life is a joke that's just begun.
~ W. S. Gilbert
To the seeing eye life is mostly Sparrows.
~ Will Cuppy
I don't think all life is precious. I know people say that all the time, "Life is precious." I think some life is precious, and some life is just a waste of protoplasm. Start over.
~ Bill Maher
The purpose of life is to live it.
~ Clarence Darrow
Life is pain, so live it up while you can.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Let us live while we live.
~ Philip Doddridge