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Quotes About Existence

The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.
~ Wallace Stevens
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
~ Wally Lamb
Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.
~ Walt Whitman
Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.
~ Walter Savage Landor
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
~ Wendell Berry
The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.
~ Whit Stillman
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
~ Wilkie Collins
And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run
~ John Clare
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.
~ John Daniel
Where your life ends, your being doesn't. Where your being ends, you don't. That is what is able to have and move your forms.
~ John de Ruiter
Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.
~ John Denham
. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.
~ John Donne
There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.
~ John F. Kennedy
What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.
~ John Green
Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.
~ John Hodgman
I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.
~ John Keats
Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.
~ John Lubbock
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
~ John Ruskin
life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it
~ John Steinbeck
Our lives fade behind us before we die.
~ John Updike
Life is scarier than death.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
~ Jonathan Safran Foer