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Quotes About Existence

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.
~ Philip K. Dick
This also, that I live, I consider a gift of God.
~ Ovid
You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
~ Robert Browning
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
~ Victor Hugo
Belief in a future life is the appetite of reason.
~ Walter Savage Landor
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.
~ William John Locke
Life itself is vanishing fast. Make haste for eternity.
~ Robert E. Murray
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
~ Robert Musil
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
~ Rose Macaulay
Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.
~ Rudolf Steiner
She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.
~ Rudyard Kipling
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
~ Rumi
My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.
~ RuPaul
Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.
~ Russell Brand
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
~ Saint Augustine
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
~ Samuel Butler
Spending practically every minute of your day on pure survival is an absolutely boring life.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I suspect most of life takes place in the interstices of what's already been articulated.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.
~ Sandra Brown
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
~ Saul Bellow
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
~ Saul Bellow
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
~ Seneca the Younger
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
~ Sophocles
Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
~ Soren Kierkegaard