Existence Quotes

Life is rather a short walk through eternity. Be they seeds, pups or infants, on the trek they all pick up weight, sensitivity and awareness. Then, much before the end of the run, they deteriorate, lead, legs and lungs. The tragicomedy of existence: the long walk of slow decay.

~ Dagobert D. Runes

If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?

~ Chris Matakas

You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence.

~ Debasish Mridha

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.

~ David Mitchell

The alchemist saw the union of opposites under the symbol of the tree, and it is therefore not surprising that the unconscious of present-day man, who no longer feels at home in his world and can base his existence neither on the past that is no more nor on the future that is yet to be, should hark back to the symbol of the cosmic tree rooted in this world and growing up to heaven - the tree that is also man. In the history of symbols this tree is described as the way of life itself, a growing into that which eternally is and does not change; which springs from the union of opposites and, by its eternal presence, also makes that union possible. It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own “existence” and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

~ C.g. Jung

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

~ Fay Weldon

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

~ Stefan Zweig

So said Tochihuitzin,so said Coyolchiuhqui:We come out of the dream suddenly,we only come to dream,it isn't true, it isn't truethat we come to live on the earth.Like grass in springis our being.Our heart makes them grow,flowers sprout from our flesh.Some open their corollas,then they become dry.So said Tochihuitzin.

~ Nezahualcóyotl

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

~ Michel Faber

It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

~ Peter Hedges

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it.

~ Nick Harkaway

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical joke. Yes, chosen. For it had been an act of the will. If it were all nonsense or a joke, then he was at liberty to read his books and exercise his talents for sarcastic comment; there was no reason why he shouldn't sleep with any presentable woman who was ready to sleep with him. If it weren't nonsense, if there was some significance, then he could no longer live irresponsibly. There were duties towards himself and others and the nature of things. Duties with whose fulfilment the sleeping and the indiscriminate reading and the habit of detached irony would interfere. He had chosen to think it nonsense, and nonsense for more than twenty years the thing had seemed to be – nonsense, in spite of occasional uncomfortable intimations that there might be a point, and that the point was precisely in what he had chosen to regard as the pointlessness, the practical joke.

~ Aldous Huxley

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

~ Álvaro De Campos

Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist!

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sluka shook her head. We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.

~ Alastair Reynolds

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

~ Alberto Caeiro

The Jetavana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Twinned sala trees, white in full flower, declare the great man's certain fall. The arrogant do not long endure: They are like a dream one night in spring. The bold and brave perish in the end:They are as dust before the wind.

~ Royall Tyler

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.

~ Flann O'brien

I’m in no hurry. What for?The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.No; I don’t know how to hurry.

~ Alberto Caeiro

My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended that their power was goodand their exploitation was love.But if there are no gods;why are we so hungry to believe in them?Just because evil liarsstand between us and the godsand block our view of themdoes not mean that the bright halothat surrounds each liaris not the outer edges of a god, waitingfor us to find our way around the lie.

~ Orson Scott Card

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I wonder if anyone will know what I mean when I say that some people make the world seem like a large place filled with different lands, languages and cultures and others make it seem like a small place where a new Tom Hanks movie is being released on video this week

~ Tales Of Mere Existence

A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow small and trivial, and bread and cheese—ay, and even kisses—do not seem the only things worth striving for. Thoughts we cannot speak but only listen to flood in upon us, and standing in the stillness under earth's darkening dome, we feel that we are greater than our petty lives. Hung round with those dusky curtains, the world is no longer a mere dingy workshop, but a stately temple wherein man may worship, and where at times in the dimness his groping hands touch God's.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Sameness of existence. Conformity is inevitable. So is search.

~ Aporva Kala

No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love.

~ Raphael Zernoff

Let your existence be enough for a moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist.

~ Bryant Mcgill

What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all?

~ Maria Goodin

You don’t know what it’s like to be a man over thirty who’s never had anything happen to him. You spend so many years trying to stay safe, stay alive, to avoid some unknown horror. Then you realize the horror is existence itself. The nothing-happening.

~ Dave Eggers

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.

~ Lance Conrad

The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself.

~ Valley Brown

IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment

~ Kamil Ali

Together we'll make magic...Who had conjured whom?She seemed to remember Oliver suggesting this once before, but she hadn't really appreciated the importance of his question. Was she the dream? Was Nao the one writing her into being? Agency is a tricky business, Muriel had said. Ruth had always felt substantial enough, but maybe she wasn't. Maybe she was as absent as her name indicated, a homeless and ghostly composite of words that the girl had assembled. She'd never had any cause to doubt her senses. Her empirical experience of herself, seemed trustworthy enough, but now in the dark, at four in the morning, she wasn't so sure.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Life is always speaking to us at every moment.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.

~ Tom Stafford