Quotes About Existence

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

I write in order to bear witness to life.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

In this miraculous, beautiful universe of ours, where it's an absolute miracle that our eyes and ears can witness it all, we somehow have bought into this lie that the highest plane of existence is whether we put an R or a D on our voter registration card. That's insanity.

We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.

I had a dream that I was awake and I woke up to find myself asleep.

No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.

I don't know who made the Earth. I woke up one morning, and it's here. I make the best of it.

I say all the time when someone asks me how I am, 'I woke up today, I'm alive.' Basically meaning people complain about so much, but you know what... you're alive. Some people don't wake up.

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

A woman simply is, but a man must become.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.

A lot of the themes that I write about are an affirmation of our existence on earth and making people feel like they are not alone, and making them feel like it is OK to be a little bit insane. That has always been sort of my credo in life.

Literature hasn't come up with any new themes. The literature of all different times - it's still dealing with how one resolves issues of existence.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.