Quotes About Existence

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

The power is that which generated and maintains the universe... the life-force, the stuff of creation. It is the very substance of existence itself.

The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion.

Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.

Our life is but a grain of sand in the indifferent ocean of infinity.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

The only answer to the question of the meaning of life has to begin from the fact of our human finitude, of our vulnerability and our fallibility.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.

All those days that came and went, little did I know that they were life.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

To die or not to die ... we really don't have a choice. We can therefore only take care of our life-body, until the fullness of time and being ends our existence on earth.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.

I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.

We term sleep a death, and yet it is waking that kills us, and destroys those spirits that are the house of life.