Quotes about Existence
Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.
- Jacqueline Novogratz
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.
- Dorothy Sayers
Life is real, and death is the illusion.
- Mary Baker Eddy
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
- St. Augustine
The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul.
- Marcus Aurelius
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
- Deepak Chopra
Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
- CS Lewis
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
- Desmond Tutu
You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.
- Ernest Hemingway
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
- Rob Bell