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Quotes About Existence

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.
~ Mark Twain
Pieces. Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more?
~ Mary E. Pearson
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
~ Mary Ellen Mark
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
~ Matthew Arnold
We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
~ Hannah
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life.
~ Megan Gallagher
My life was a mystery even as I lived it.
~ Melissa Gilbert
You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
~ Neil Gaiman
Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.
~ Nhat Hanh
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.
~ Norman Mailer
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
~ Novalis
Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
~ Paulo Coelho
It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.
~ Plato
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.
~ Oscar Wilde
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
~ Oscar Wilde
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.
~ Rainbow Rowell