Quotes About Existence

The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

There's more to Life than this

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.

Everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here

One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

It said to me, 'I am here — I am here — I am life, eternal life.'

By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".