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Quotes About Existence

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
~ Tama Janowitz
Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.
~ Terry Goodkind
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
~ Theodore Parker
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.
~ Thomas Nagel
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
~ Tom Robbins
The great mystery of life is the length of it.
~ Venita VanCaspel
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Man's life is entirely in his operations, which may all be classed under three heads: he thinks, he feels, and he acts -- these three modes of activity exhaust his powers.
~ William Batchelder Greene
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
~ William Butler Yeats
Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.
~ William Ellery Channing
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.
~ William John Locke
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
~ William Shakespeare
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
~ William Shakespeare
I see a man's life is a tedious one.
~ William Shakespeare
The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty
~ Yoshida Kenko
I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.
~ Zach Braff
I think it would be arrogant and borderline foolish to believe there's no other life forms that exist out there.
~ Will Smith
What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
~ Willa Cather
What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?
~ William Broyles, Jr.
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
~ William Butler Yeats
We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
~ William Butler Yeats
Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
~ William Godwin
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
~ William Golding
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
~ William James