Quotes About Existence

When I was young I would ask everybody what life was about. Now it's clear to me that the image of each existence shows its own answer to that question.

If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

I could even feel how perishable all my moments really were, how all my life they had come to me begging to be lived, to be cherished even.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

Life in this world is an attempt to see God.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

When one does not feel life or death, it's the best future.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.

We do have the precious opportunity of this human life.

It's unlikely that you were a frog in a past life.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

I am conscious of eternal life.