Quotes About Existence

When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.