Quotes About Existence

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

Happy Cadaver's hunger as you take The kissproof world.

Living is hell of a death

One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things have no inherent existence. Nirvana is beyond concepts.

All methods of Buddhism can be explained with the four seals—all compounded phenomena are impermanent, all emotions are pain, all things have no inherent existence, and enlightenment is beyond concepts. Every act and deed encouraged by Buddhist scriptures is based on these four truths, or seals.

It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The

The two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us

Emptiness is consciousness itself.

Wherever I go, my evils accompany me. That is the capital gift of my existence.

By the moon, I suddenly realized how much I was tied to this beautiful and damned universe.

Helen says it alone endures while men and houses perish, and that in the end the world will be a desert of chairs and sofas--just imagine it!--rolling through infinity with no one to sit upon them

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist.

You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. I was thinking, it's true. We already love each other. We already do.

We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

Mirren took off her shoes and the rest of us followed. We tossed stones into the water. We just existed.

Once you are there, the rest of the universe seems nothing but an unpleasant dream.

What if In another universe, A split reality,

Being and Nothingness by Sartre.