Quotes About Existence

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

Beauty always had a purpose: to be of service to life.

...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Life is available only in the present moment.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.