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Quotes About Existence

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
~ Thomas Merton
Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.
~ William Ralph Inge
This life is a stellar opportunity to realize what you are, to bring what you first are into manifestation.
~ John de Ruiter
I want you to know there's nothing... nothing to be afraid of. On one side, there's life. And on the other...there's life, too.
~ John Dye
It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.
~ John Masefield
I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.
~ Jonathan Frakes
Hell is life drying up.
~ Joseph Campbell
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
~ Joseph Campbell
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
~ Josh Billings
The less I understand life, the more I live it!
~ Jules Renard
There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.
~ Kathy Ireland
... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.
~ Kazuo Chiba
There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.
~ Laurence Sterne
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
~ Leo Buscaglia
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
~ Lorrie Moore
Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.
~ Mac Danzig
How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
~ Madame de Stael
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
If you don't have God in your life, you are nothing.
~ Manny Pacquiao
The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
~ Marianne Williamson
I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
~ Marsden Hartley
Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.
~ Martha Gellhorn
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
~ Alan Alda
From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy.
~ Alan Seeger