Quotes About Existence

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.

equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

A place where your life exists before you live it, and where it goes afterwards.

As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Life has no guarantees, though. What good is living if all you think about is dying?

I live life and I don't take it for granted.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

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

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.

What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?

The old brown hen and the old blue sky, Between the two we live and die The broken cartwheel on the hill.

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.

Words of the world are the life of the world.