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Quotes About Existence

Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life?
~ Virginia Woolf, The Years
Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming
~ Kahlil Gibran
Those who know how one should die knew how one should live.
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad
When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.
~ Neel Burton
It seemed to her that living without control of your own will was hardly a step above not living at all.
~ Jessica Khoury, Vitro
My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.
~ Alireza Salehi Nejad
What separated the living from one another could be as impenetrable as whatever barrier separated the living from the dead.
~ Joshua Ferris
One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.
~ Sai Marie Johnson
L I V E or E V I L -- to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
~ Shannon L. Alder
The real troubles with living is that living is so banal.
~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
Don't stop livingbefore you stop breathing.
~ Manoj Vaz
Living appears good, long, and tiresome, but it is way too short than a single stroke of lightning.
~ Aniruddha Sastikar
Why live unless you live large? Death is a reality, always present, waiting, with that in mind, live today, it is everything you own.
~ Jason Goodman
I don't see how anyone can find happiness in this world.
~ Denice Envall
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
~ Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die
Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced
~ Ricky Maye
I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems.
~ Bond Bixler
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
~ Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun
All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
~ Pietros Maneos
Death was easy. Life was complicated.
~ Callie Hunter, All At Once
Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.
~ Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
He thought he'd lived through everything. Only now did he realise he'd merely existed.
~ Dianna Hardy, The Demon Bride
Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
i see the sky as beautiful, Regardless of its shine Because I wake each day grateful, That I get another chance to be alive.
~ Nikki Rowe