Quotes About Existence

Ah, why Should life all labour be?

Whatever crazy sorrow saith, No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.

Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

I am afraid of death. I believe nothing, and therefore like many who believe nothing I must make something, and that something is the meaning which I give my life.

Life is an illusion that last too little.

The way you live your days is the way you live your life.

Are you living just a little and calling that life?

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Is there life before death? - that is the question!

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution.

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

The basic fact is simple: life begins not at birth, but conception.