Quotes About Existence

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told.

Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

No one escapes from life alive.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?

Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

We're all dead the moment we're born. Just, some of us get there faster than others.

Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.

In the end, living is defined by dying.

In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.