Quotes About Existence

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

My heart hurts that means I'm alive.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami

The last day of your life is still going to be a day.

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Well, we're all going to die, so mortality is a part of writing and life.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

The essence of what makes life beautiful is the fact that it can go away.