Quotes About Existence

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.

Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.

Go to a place and just send out emails. That's my entire life. I go to countries and I ask, "Who would I know who lives here?" Not even do I know, but who exists and is on the planet.

It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere.

Ages passed I knew at last my life had never been.

Wherever there is a suitable environment for the fulfilment of Life, it will fulfil itself.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.