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Quotes About Existence

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.
~ Jules Renard
A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
~ Mary Oliver
There is purpose and worth to each and every life.
~ Ronald Reagan
Life is just a lie with an 'F' in it, and death is definite
~ Sage Francis
That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
~ Samuel Beckett
If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now.
~ Simone Elkeles
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
~ Solomon Northup
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
~ Steven Wright
It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.
~ Passenger
Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
~ Charles Lamb
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
~ Christian Morgenstern
One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.
~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
~ Crowfoot
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.
~ Eric Idle
Always, at the back of your soul, there is something that says to you, 'Mortal, drawn from eternal life for a short time, think how precious these moments are.
~ Eugene Delacroix
But there is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death.
~ Richard Feynman
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
~ Spike Milligan
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
~ T.S. Eliot
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel