Quotes About Existence

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Live life as if it were created just for you.

The observant Jew has his own sense of values. Torah Judaism is his blueprint for this life, his target for existence.

How to measure a life's worth? The important thing, said Paloma one day, is not the fact of dying, it is what you are doing in the moment of your death.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.

Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.

Activity does not necessarily mean life.

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

We can't tell our life from our wish

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I!

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

The Divine does not come from somewhere above, it exists beyond time and space, and informs all life.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.