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Quotes About Existence

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
~ Philip James Bailey
In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life
~ Philip Johnson
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
~ Philip Larkin
I believe in life after death.
~ Pierre Trudeau
My main goal now is waking up healthy every day and going on with life.
~ Prince Fielder
It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I can feel it in the chilled and weary marrow of my bones.
~ Quentin S. Crisp
As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.
~ Orson Scott Card
Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.
~ Orson Scott Card
Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can!
~ Otomo no Tabito
Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.
~ Ouida
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
What is life when living without the Lifemaker?
~ Rachel
Truly it is glorious, our being here.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
~ Rajneesh
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
~ Rajneesh
This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.
~ Rajneesh
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
~ Rajneesh
There is no God other than life itself.
~ Rajneesh
You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
~ Rajneesh
The other world is hidden in this world. The Buddha is asleep in the Zorba. It has to be awakened. And nobody can awaken you except life itself.
~ Rajneesh
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson