Quotes About Existence

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidts the night of non-being.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

Who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?

How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

We're here, and then we're gone, and it's not about the time we're here, but what we do with the time.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.