Quotes about Existence
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
- George Bernard Shaw
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- Elias Canetti
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
- Elie Wiesel
Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life
- Albert Schweitzer
I think. I am. I will.
- Ayn Rand
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
- Oscar Wilde
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!
- Samuel Johnson
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
- Virginia Woolf
What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
- St. Augustine
We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.
- Wayne Dyer
To live by worry is to live against reality
- E Stanley Jones
If there were no God, we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
- E Stanley Jones