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Quotes About Existence

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
~ Henry Theodore Tuckerman
His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
~ Hermann Hesse
Money is life to us wretched mortals.
~ Hesiod
This world is a comedy, not Life.
~ Horace Walpole
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.
~ Jean Genet
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
~ Joan Didion
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a state of constant radiation and absorption; to exist is to radiate; to exist is to be the recipient of radiations.
~ William George Jordan
Life is a vacation from two eternities, who wants to waste those precious years worrying about what happens when you get back to forever?
~ William S. Burroughs
Life is a vacation from two eternities.
~ William S. Burroughs
Live, for this is the time of your life.
~ William Saroyan
How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?
~ Zhuangzi
The part of life which we really live is short.
~ Seneca the Younger
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
~ Alan Bennett
There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
~ Betty Shine
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
~ Dan Millman
Every life is its own excuse for being.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Life is a state of consciousness.
~ Emmet Fox
Human life is beyond comprehension.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Life is beautiful and living is pain.
~ Hunter S. Thompson