Quotes about Existence
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo
Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life.
— John Updike
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
— Cormac McCarthy
For most of my life, I've felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not.
— Steve Jobs
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
— Thomas Merton
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.
— Mark Twain
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
— Rob Bell
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
— Jack Kerouac
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
— Henry David Thoreau