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Quotes About Existence

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.
~ Ivan Turgenev
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
~ Jack Abbott
We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.
~ Jean Baptiste Massillon
In the colored reflection we have Life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.
~ John Ajvide Lindqvist
Life is a long headache in a noisy street.
~ John Masefield
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.
~ Julio Olalla
I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.
~ Keanu Reeves
Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.
~ Kim Stanley
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life?
~ Mary Oliver
We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.
~ Northrop Frye
The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.
~ Paul Kurtz
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
~ Peter Shaffer
I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
~ Oscar Wilde
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Every moment is the manifestation of the whole. Life itself is, therefore, nothing but the continuous moment of the whole, and everybody is living the continuous moment of the whole.
~ Yamada Koun
That's absolutely correct and in addition to that life just isn't an accident of the laws of physics. There's a long list of experiments that suggest just the opposite.
~ Robert Lanza
Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.
~ Romano Guardini
That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.
~ Rudolf Steiner
We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor!
~ Sam Keen
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.
~ Sidney Hook