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Quotes About Existence

...death is ultimately a dimension of life through which we journey into timelessness.
~ John Shelby Spong
Just as drowning cannot be equated with swimming, mere existence is not the same as abundant life. We have been offered a new way to live – a new way to be human.
~ Jon Foreman
Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel.
~ Jonathan Cainer
I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.
~ Jonathan Littell
Applause, applause, life is our cause.
~ Joni Mitchell
For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
~ Joseph Campbell
Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
We are the living planet!
~ Jostein Gaarder
The worst insult I can inflict on life is that I do not reflect on its meaning.
~ Kedar Joshi
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
~ Khalil Gibran
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.
~ L.A. Paul
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the golden gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
~ Lewis Carroll
Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
~ Li Bai
What is death all about? What is life all about?
~ Livia Bitton-Jackson
I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!
~ Lorrie Moore
And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.
~ Majandra Delfino
The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.
~ Marcel Proust
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
~ Marcus Aurelius
No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
~ Marcus Aurelius