Quotes About Existence

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

I'm an optimist, so I believe in some sort of life after death; I don't know what kind.

Life can be thought of as water kept at the right temperature in the right atmosphere in the right light for a long enough period of time.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Each second of life is a miracle

Life is only available in the present moment.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else.

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Life is heavier than the weight of all things.

He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.

Perhaps there is no life after death....there's just Los Angeles.

Enjoy life - you only get one.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

The question is not to know what is the meaning of life, but what meaning I can give to my life.

Live life to the fullest. It's too bad we're not cats...we only have one life.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.