Quotes about Existence
Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
— John Calvin
To be loved means to be recognized as existing.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.
— Amy Grant
You might as well not be alive if you're not in awe of God.
— Albert Einstein
For we are not pure spirits who happen to be trapped in bodies. We are not even spirits who only have bodies, for we do not have bodies as we have possessions. We are bodies as well as souls.
— Peter Kreeft
The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.
— Joel Osteen
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.
— Milan Kundera
Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
— Muhammad Ali
Soon you'll be ashes, or bones. A mere name, at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, and trivial. Dogs snarling at each other. Quarreling children—laughing and then bursting into tears a moment later. Trust, shame, justice, truth—"gone from the earth and only found in heaven." Why are you still here? Sensory objects are shifting and unstable; our senses dim and easily deceived
— Marcus Aurelius
Life cannot arise spontaneously but comes only from preexisting life.
— Ray Comfort
The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?
— Carl Jung