Quotes about Existence
Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
- William Hazlitt
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
- Samuel Johnson
A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.
- Paulo Coelho
It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
- Virginia Woolf
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
- Albert Camus
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
- Aristotle
Brief life is here our portion.
- John Mason Neale
Where all life dies death lives.
- John Milton
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
- Joseph Addison
Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.
- Mark Twain
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
- Rob Bell