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Quotes About Existence

Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is being, not having.
~ Austin O'Malley
Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.
~ Austin O'Malley
If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.
~ Behdad Sami
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
~ Betty Smith
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
~ Boris Sidis
Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
~ Brenda Shoshanna
My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life
~ Bruno Dumont
The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.
~ Carl Jung
Thought is the measure of life.
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
You are permanent, but this life is not.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
~ Cynthia Ozick
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.
~ Dalai Lama
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
~ Dan Simmons
All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!
~ David Berg
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
~ David McCord
The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.
~ Deepak Chopra
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
~ Desmond Tutu
. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .
~ E. M. Forster
The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
~ Edward Abbey