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Quotes About Existence

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
~ Michael Ende
My life is Avatar, your life is Precious.
~ Ras Kass
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
~ Saul Bellow
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
~ Thomas Merton
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
~ William James
Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
~ William Empson
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.
~ Charles Templeton
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.
~ David Byrne
I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.
~ David Duchovny
It is, I think, good evidence of life after death
~ Donald Soper, Baron Soper
Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?
~ Dylan Thomas
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
~ E. M. Forster
You see, death is not the grave as many people think. It is another phenomenized form of life.
~ Edgar Cayce
The art of life is to live in the present moment
~ Emmet Fox
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
~ Eric Hoffer
We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.
~ Ernest Holmes
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
~ Erwin Chargaff
Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.
~ Florida Scott-Maxwell
Death is what makes life an event.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
We're blind, deaf and dumb. It is only that Self, which is our life force that makes who and what we are. The realization of that is self-realization.
~ Frederick Lenz
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
~ John Irving
You know, everybody dies. My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies. I'm going to die too. So will you. The thing is, to have a life before we die. It can be a real adventure having a life
~ John Irving
It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.
~ John Zerzan