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Quotes About Existence

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
~ Norman Mailer
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
~ Paul Davies
Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
~ Oscar Wilde
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.
~ Raymond Williams
We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
~ A.S. King
Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.
~ Alan Watts
Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.
~ Antoine Bechamp
Life swarms with innocent monsters.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
~ David Starr Jordan
Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.
~ Deepak Chopra
I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life
~ Diane di Prima
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
~ Edward Abbey
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
~ Edwin Markham
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
~ Eugenio Montale
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?
~ Euripides
If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.
~ F. Huegel
Without rain, there would be no life.
~ John Updike
Every life has a file, if you will.
~ Joseph Brodsky
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
~ Judy Collins