Quotes About Existence

most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.

Hunger not to have, but to be

Yesternight the sun went hence,And yet is here today.

My world's both parts, and 'o! Both parts must die.

No man ever saw God and lived; and yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him I shall never die

As yet God suspends me between heaven and earth, as a meteor; and I am not in heaven because an earthly body clogs me, and I am not in the earth because a heavenly soul sustains me.

Y por esa puerta entrarán, y en esa casa morarán, donde no habrá ni nubes ni sol, ni oscuridad ni deslumbramiento, sino una luz constante, ni ruido ni silencio, sino una música constante, ni miedos ni esperanzas, sino una ecuanimidad constante, ni amigos ni enemigos, sino unas constantes comunión e identidad, ni fin ni principio, sino una constante eternidad.

Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension is essential to our existance. Mystery is our maker.

Life is both pain and pleasure. If this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much?

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Since we're not very good at something as basic as controlling our reproduction, life is really bad for more people than ever before.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

No lifetime is long enough for those ... who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.

I don't want to die, obviously, but really, the wonder of life is amplified by the fact that it ends.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

I suppose I will try to enjoy my life now while I have it. Who knows what's going to happen in the future?

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.