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Quotes About Existence

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
what's life good fer anyhow? The minute you crawl into the world for no good reason of yer own, it's got you licked four ways from the ace.
~ Mae West
Life is greater than all art.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is not death that kills us, but life. We are done to death by life.
~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Although your physical body was created, you are the one who makes this body function. In other words, you are the divine life known as God. I call it a life branching out from God.
~ Masahisa Goi
Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.
~ Mason Cooley
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
~ Mason Cooley
It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.
~ Maureen Johnson
In this world, there is life and death; he who misses the life shall never die anymore, because he is already a dead!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
People or philosophers keep saying that our fundamental objective in life is to be happy! This is wrong! Our fundamental objective in life is to exist, either happy or unhappy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.
~ Meital Dohan
Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Life is not the body; it is not the mind; it is not the soul. It is a force.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
~ Ming-Dao Deng
Life is vital and we should relax a little and enjoy it as we only have one life as far as I'm aware.
~ Murray Mexted
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
~ Nat Hentoff
Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
So when I think of, what is the meaning of life, to me, that's not an eternal unanswerable question. To me it is in arms reach of me every day.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving.
~ Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.
~ Paul Davies
Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.
~ Pema Chodron
Life hath more awe than death.
~ Philip James Bailey
Life is as serious a thing as death.
~ Philip James Bailey