Quotes About Existence

Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Life and existence have no value in themselves. We mean nothing; not even those who are needed mean anything. The only thing of real value is what we produce.

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

It is true, I thought. I am living a life.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

Comparing objects like cars, houses, clothes, and defining life according to those comparisons, instead of trying to discover the real reason for being alive.

Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.

I am infected with life and will die of it in time.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.