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Quotes About Existence

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.
~ Jaco Van Dormael
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
~ James O'Donnell Bennett
There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this pouring, this flood of encounters, struggles, dreams...
~ James Salter
Bottom line, wasn't life itself a special occasion?
~ Jan Karon
Who are we? We are the life-force power of the universe.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories. Like we may as well just be words on a page, because we're only what we've done and what we are going to do.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.
~ John Flansburgh
The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?
~ John Mayer
Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?
~ John Updike
I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
~ Joseph Conrad
Life as we know it is a death sentence.
~ Joseph Curiale
But she'd managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.
~ Jostein Gaarder
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Human life commences at the time of conception.
~ Landrum Shettles
Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?
~ Lily Tomlin
The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The life of the soul is incalculable.
~ Margaret Fuller