Quotes About Existence

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.

We all need a meaning to our life.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

There is the joy that is one's state of the being and there is the joy that is one's state of mind. The first is permanent and the second is impermanent.

I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

Solve the problem of life? Live, and you solve it.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

Many of our troubles are chronic. Life is chronic.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.

Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.