Quotes About Existence

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

Life is consciousness.

If you're alive, make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything.

Who is moving in the distance? It is the clock's pendulum, Hired by the god of death To measure life.

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

But the little things are what make up life

Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.

Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Everyday is one less day.

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.