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Quotes About Existence

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
~ Saint Augustine
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
~ Salman Rushdie
My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
~ Shalom Auslander
When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.
~ Shane Harper
All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.
~ Sharon Gannon
To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
~ Sheila Heti
The unlived life isn't worth examining.
~ Sheldon B. Kopp
A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.
~ Stanley Kunitz
Where is the Life we lost in living?
~ T. S. Eliot
Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
~ Tao Lin
One year to me is just a small section of life. For most humans, one year is a long time and so much happens. But for the universe, it's very temporary.
~ Tehching Hsieh
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
~ Tennessee Williams
Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.
~ Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
~ Tryon Edwards
The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.
~ Voltaire
Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.
~ Walter Smith
We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.
~ Wayne Dyer
As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.
~ Wei Wu Wei
It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.
~ Wendell Berry
Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.
~ Wendell Berry
Life is short, death is forever
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
~ Donald Barthelme