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Quotes About Existence

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
~ Kim Elizabeth
We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.
~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado
The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
~ Herbert Spencer
Oh, how daily life is.
~ Jules Laforgue
Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.
~ A.J. Ayer
Life is just the time between crapping yourself.
~ Adam Carolla
Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth.
~ Albert Camus
One lives one's life under constant tension, until it's time to go for good
~ Albert Einstein
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable
~ Aldous Huxley
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
~ Alexander Pope
I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of the established religions.
~ Amanda Donohoe
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
~ Anne Lamott
There is such a difference between life and theory.
~ Anthony Trollope
I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Time is the stuff life is made of.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
~ Bertrand Russell
They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
~ Bob Schieffer
Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.
~ Carl Jung
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
For whatever you live is life.
~ Robert Penn Warren
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
~ Roger Housden
Life is not lived in hours, days, or years, but in moments.
~ Ryan Robbins