Quotes about Existence
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
- Albert Einstein
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
- Epicurus
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
- Walt Whitman
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
- Epicurus
Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.
- Toni Morrison
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.
- Joseph Brodsky
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
- Emily Bronte
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
- Ayn Rand
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.
- Epicurus
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.
- Norman Vincent Peale