Quotes About Existence

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die... Life is how the time goes by

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

Live as though life was created for you.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

Hell is just resistance to life.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

The experience of Eternity right here and now, is the function of life.

Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

Today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.