Quotes About Existence

To find and discover yourself is your creation, and it is actual and factual life.

You are the content, context, meaning, and title of life; otherwise, I am meaningless; please, become the book of my life.

What I really wanted wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know whether or not I should've been been born. – Portgas D. Ace

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.

He looked over the side of the boat, at the swirling blue water. It was deep here, infinitely deep, and alive with what seemed to be eternal life. But water had no fixed, determined form. Was it not because man had a fixed, determined form that he cannot possess eternal life? Does not true life begin only when tangible form has been lost? (Musashi---the Soul of the Deep)

There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

To think that a man Has but fifty years to live under heaven. Surely this world Is nothing but a vain dream. Living but one life, Is there anything that does not decay?

The beauty of the story is that it happened. It was the last thing that happened in New York. Everything else happened while I was stopping it from happening.

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.

Hann benti líka á hvað það er skrýtið að það þurfi vitnisburð annarra til að staðfesta stærsta atburð eigin lífs, fæðinguna.

Mind, energy, and matter are a continuum, and the universe is not described as it might be in itself, but as it presents itself to the human mind.

It's difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live--exist or whatever--in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to be real grown-up lives. I just find everybody else's life surrounded by plate glass. I mean I'd like to break through it just once and actually touch one.

I love you. If you hadn't existed I would have had to invent you.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. . . . To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion, "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game. . . . One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

But real life is not art.

Just breathing isn't living!

How much of your life... is balanced on the unseen? Bridie's Tomb

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.