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Quotes About Existence

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.
~ Sri Aurobindo
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.
~ Thomas Merton
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
~ Thomas Nagel
A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death
~ Tiffany Baker
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life [had] replaced logic.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Politics is how you think about life itself.
~ Gene Weingarten
Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.
~ George MacDonald
If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!
~ Gore Verbinski
The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.
~ Henry Miller
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
~ Henry Rollins
The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.
~ Hermann Hesse
My point of reference is life, in everything that I do.
~ Howie Mandel
All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.
~ Isaac Asimov
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
~ Italo Calvino
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
~ Jack Kerouac
You've gotta know what death is to know life!
~ Jack Kevorkian
My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
~ Jack Nicholson