Quotes About Existence

When I think back to my life in 1942, it all seems so unreal. The Anne Frank who enjoyed that heavenly existence was completely different from the one who has grown wise within these walls.

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we are all searching for happiness; we are leading lives that are different and yet the same

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives that are different and yet the same.

Go outside... amidst the simple beauty of nature... and know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.

Reality is unforgivingly complex.

I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.

There's no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.

when humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

Maybe what we say to each other is not so important after all, but just that we are alive together, and present for each other as best we can be.

Being human can be so dispiriting. It is a real stretch for me a lot of the time.

The medieval German mystic Meister Eckhart said that if the soul could have known God without the world, God never would have created the world.

I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below.

In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God's loving eyes and hands on earth. But in certain African Christian catechisms it says that God created us because He thought we would like it.

There really is only today, although luckily that is also the eternal now.

We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences

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

clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

to be born into this world exactly the way it is, into these exact circumstances, even if that meant not having a dad or an ozone layer, even if it included pets that would die and acne and seventh=grade dances and AIDS.

Robert Burns said it best: "Life is but a day at most.

Life on earth is a head-scratcher for anyone who's paying attention. This place has been a bad match for me since I was four.

I don't know Who—or what—put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings

were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.