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Quotes About Existence

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.
~ Lucius Shepard
a life is measured by moments like these
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Life itself is your proper meal.
~ Marc David
Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.
~ Mary Ann Shaffer
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
~ Mary Oliver
All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them
~ Masami Saionji
You are a cosmic happening rooted in a local event, NOT the other way around.
~ Michael Beckwith
My religion is to seek for truth in life and for life in truth, even knowing that I shall not find them while I live.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.
~ Mikhail Turovsky
resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.
~ Monica Furlong
I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.
~ Mu Xin
Life and death are different sides of the same coin.
~ Neil Gaiman
We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
I just wanna live the moment and just take every moment and embrace it because life is short.
~ Nonito Donaire
We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am not in the body of life. I hover on the extremities. I float.
~ Polly Horvath
How does one get bored of life?
~ Osric Chau
The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning.
~ Raymond Radiguet
Life is really just a bunch of nows, one after the other.
~ Rebecca Stead
Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it.
~ Robert Breault
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina