Quotes about Existence

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

The mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality

Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

Immortality is but ubiquity in time.

But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.