Quotes About Existence

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

I think. I am. I will.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Life and death and birth is this fantastic mystery that we cannot fully grasp.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.