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Quotes About Existence

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
~ Albert Einstein
Live as if you were eternal.
~ Andre Maurois
How plotless real life was!
~ Anne Tyler
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
~ David Zucker
Is death that which gives meaning to life?
~ Donald Barthelme
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
~ Erasmus Darwin
Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
~ Eugene O'Neill
It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.
~ Francis Crick
Life is beautiful all of the time. Just to be alive and perceive that beauty of life all around you and within you is the best that there is.
~ Frederick Lenz
What is life? A continuous praise and blame.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The consciousness of life is higher than life.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
~ George Bernard Shaw
What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.
~ Gore Vidal
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life
~ James Joyce
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.
~ Jon Krakauer
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
~ Louise Erdrich
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Life is a dream and autumn is a dream within dream!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Life ... is only heavy and none else; there is only the one trip, all heavy. Heavy that leads to the grave. For everyone and everything.
~ Philip K. Dick