Quotes About Existence

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

Each one of us must live the life God gives him; it cannot be shirked.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

Reincarnation is not what a lot of people think. Yes, we are eternal. No, everyone does not attain enlightenment; it's not necessary; life is smarter than we are.

The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Nothing in life possesses value except the degree of power--assuming that life itself is the will to power.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process.

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.