Quotes About Existence

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

Reality: What a concept!

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.

And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.

Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or today.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

We cannot withdraw our cards from the game. Were we as silent and mute as stones, our very passivity would be an act.

Being discontented, we either seek a different job or merely succumb to environment...instead of causing us to question life, the whole process of existence.