Quotes about Existence

Still, there's no harm in putting a full stop to one's disagreeable thoughts by looking at a mark on the wall... Here is something definite, something real. thus, waking from a midnight dream of horror, one hastily turns on the light and lies quiescent, worshipping the chest of drawers, worshipping solidity, worshipping reality, worshipping the impersonal world which is proof of some existence other than ours.

They neither work nor weep; in their shape is their reason.

For the philosopher is right who says that nothing is thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy

Youth so apt for pleasure that pleasure, one thought, must exist

Here are the dead poets, still musing, still pondering, still questioning the meaning of existence.

What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.

All mists curl off the roof of my being.

He did not blame her; he blamed nothing, nobody; he saw the truth. He saw the dun-colored race of waters and the blank shore. But life is vigorous; the body lives, and the body, no doubt, dictated the reflection, which now urged him to movement, that one may cast away the forms of human beings, and yet retain the passion which seemed inseparable from their existence in the flesh.

What she liked was simply life. 'That's what I do it for', she said, speaking aloud, to life.

How could any Lord have made this world? she asked. With her mind she had always seized the fact that there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor.

But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.