Quotes About Existence

Everyone dies whether one is good in their lifetime or evil in their lifetime. So virtue has no payback. Life is meaningless. When you die, you die!

In fact, life itself is a contradiction if only because birth is the direct cause, in every single case, of death

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Time is the life of the soul.

Right now my life has an expiration date determined by my bank balance. Can I find something before my time is up?

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Energy functioning in a pattern becomes matter. That is all life is... Matter and energy are interrelated.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

[My study of the universe] leaves little doubt that life has occurred on other planets. I doubt if the human race is the most intelligent form of life.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

It's an accompaniment to life. It's not something that I do to rap; I smoke when I open my eyes...I don't know any other feeling.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.