Quotes about Existence
A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says "Why the long face?". The horse replies: "I'm deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law."
— Bill Bailey
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
— Jordan Peterson
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
— CS Lewis
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.
— Albert Camus
By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.
— Ann Voskamp
Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?
— Mark Twain
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.
— CS Lewis
Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past
— Audre Lorde
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
— Virginia Woolf
A tree depicts divinest plan But God himself lives in a man.
— Anonymous