Quotes about Existence
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
— Philip James Bailey
We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.
— Rick Warren
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.
— Robert Frost
Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.
— Robert Frost
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
— Thomas Merton
In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows.
— Virginia Woolf
To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.
— Wendell Berry
The world is whole beyond human knowing.
— Wendell Berry
One can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of it.
— Joseph Campbell