Quotes About Existence

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

Life has gone by as if I never lived

Each day is a little life.

Being born is easy. So is taking your last breath. Everything in between, that's the hard part. Life is in between, and it will offer challenges and opportunities beyond measure.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.

For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.

If you take a deep breath and look around, 'Look what's happening to me!' can become 'Look what's happening!' And what's happening? The incredible drama of life is happening. And we're in it!

The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

When you realize you're alive, you can live life!

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

Live life, because when you stop and look around, you see a wonderful world.