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Quotes About Existence

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
~ Gertrude Stein
Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
~ Gregory Maguire
Genius can do much, but even genius falls short of the actuality of a single human life.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
You put the life in your belly and you live.
~ Hannibal
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
~ Haruki Murakami
Everything in life is a metaphor.
~ Haruki Murakami
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.
~ Haruki Murakami
I believe I experience creativity at every moment of my life.
~ Henri Bergson
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
~ Henry David Thoreau
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
~ Henry Miller
No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
~ Hortense Odlum
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
~ Iris Chang
The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
~ Jack Kirby
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.
~ Jack Kornfield
There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.
~ Jack Kornfield
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
~ James A. Baldwin
A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.
~ James Sheridan Knowles
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
~ James Wolcott
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
~ Jean Anouilh
Human beings are like timid punctuation marks sprinkled among the incomprehensible sentences of life.
~ Jean Giraudoux