Quotes About Existence

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

The sum of all that lives is God.

Life is what we are alive to.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

The mind can ask all the questions on the meaning of life. But it cannot answer one of them, for the answers are beyond the mind.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

You have to live with your mind your whole life.

Life is absolutely unbearable. And we're going to die.

The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?