Quotes about Existence
One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No, you shouldn't have come here. But you are here, so yes, you should be here. There are more words in the world then yes and no.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Process produces happiness, "the object and design of our existence." Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
— Stephen Covey
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
— Albert Einstein
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
— DH Lawrence
Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?
— Marquis de Sade
Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.
— Marianne Williamson
Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is.
— Wayne Dyer
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
— Albert Einstein
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
— Confucius
...God's love is so real that He created you to prove it.
— Nick Vujicic