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Quotes About Existence

He who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
How did her life live itself without her.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?
~ Leo Tolstoy
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
~ Mark Twain
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.
~ Michael Cunningham
Surely there must be a better gift God could have given us than life?
~ Michael O'Donoghue
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There is no perfection only life
~ Milan Kundera
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
~ Milan Kundera
When sperm and egg unite, something goes from inanimate to animate. It is life.
~ Mitt Romney
It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
~ Paul Auster
Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!
~ Philip Roth
Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
~ Remy de Gourmont
By dislaiming the idea of a next life, we can take more excitement in this one!
~ Richard Dawkins
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
~ Rob Bell
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.
~ Frederick Lenz
The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No more will, no more soul, no more life!
~ George Ohsawa
Security is the denial of life
~ Germaine Greer