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Quotes About Existence

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials
~ Jean Rhys
The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?
~ Jim Jarmusch
Life is not a plot; it's in the details.
~ Jodi Picoult
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
~ John Boehner
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.
~ John Burroughs
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
~ Cesare Pavese
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
~ Charles Lederer
I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.
~ Charlie Haden
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Spirituality doesn't exist on another level different from ordinary life.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
~ Clifford D. Simak
If you don't know the life yet, how could be possible for you to know the death?
~ Confucius
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I'm just living my life.
~ Curtis Joseph
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
~ D. H. Lawrence
A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
~ Dalai Lama
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
~ Daniel Craig
Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.
~ David Foenkinos