Quotes on Existence

“The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,And for me, now as then, it is too much.There is too much world.”

“To be, or not to be: what a question!”

“I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.”

“Life itself is only a vision, a dream.Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!”

“Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.”

“It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.”

“How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going?”

“Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.”

“If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.”

“I'm one of my sensations.”

“I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.”

“All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings”

“If your God entitles you to a specific land and justifies your existence as the chosen people, then you are no further than the devil himself.”

“Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.”

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.

We live in the world when we love it.

Love is an eternal question mark.

If you hear me, I am not dead.

The beauty of life lies in its impermanence.

Life is a canvas, and we are the artists of our own existence.

Life can be a great feast or a thin gruel, and for most of us, it is the latter.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will tear itself apart.

The great mystery of the world is that we are incapable of grasping the meaning of our lives.

Understanding the nature of consciousness is the key to understanding existence itself.

To explore the depths of the self is to encounter the vastness of existence.

Truth is the foundation upon which all existence is built.

To be is to be related.

We are all connected by the thread of existence.

I’m not afraid of dying; I’m afraid of not living.

Every poem is a meditation on existence, a way to grasp the fleeting moment.

A nation must be prepared to fight to the death for its existence.

Poetry is not a luxury; it is a vital necessity of our existence.

We are all meant to be here, and it is our duty to make our lives matter.

In the dance of existence, every step is a choice.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

To live in a body is to be haunted by something greater than yourself.

Sometimes you have to write yourself into existence.

Our society has lost the courage to think beyond mere existence.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

To love is to be alive.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.

To be truly alive, we must embrace the chaos of our existence.

The existence of a fact is independent of our knowledge of it.

To be is to be perceived; to exist is to be known.

In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.