Quotes about Existence
Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed.
— Cormac McCarthy
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
— Philip Appleman
Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
— Charles Dickens
It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Our life is all grounded and rooted in love, and without love we may not live.
— Julian of Norwich
The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky