Quotes about Existence
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.
- Henry Ward Beecher
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
- John Milton
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- John Milton
Real question is not who was this man (Jesus), but who is this man?
- John Ortberg
Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?
- Andy Stanley
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
- Anne Lamott
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
- St. Augustine
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
- Thomas a Kempis
When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
- Hal Elrod
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
- St. Isidore of Seville