Quotes About Existence

The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious.

What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Art's too long and life's too short.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That's life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what's going on.

All names and forms are the garbs and covers under which the one life is hidden.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.