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Quotes About Existence

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
If there were no contradictions and no struggle, there would be no world, no process, no life, and there would be nothing at all.
~ Mao Zedong
I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.
~ Matthew Kahn
The life of this world is nothing but the harmony of opposites
~ Rumi
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
~ Rumi
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
~ Stephen King
Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.
~ Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
I just eat life... I engage in life.
~ Tom Cruise
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
~ Tom Spanbauer
Life's nonsense pierces us with strange relation.
~ Wallace Stevens
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
~ John Updike
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
~ Joseph Conrad
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
~ John Mellencamp
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
~ Paul Valery
All is pattern, all life, but we can't always see the pattern when we're part of it.
~ Belva Plain
Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint
~ Brent Weeks
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
~ Abraham Verghese
There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.
~ Adyashanti