Quotes about Existence
The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.
— Anne Lamott
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?
— St. Augustine
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
— Thomas a Kempis
When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence.
— Hal Elrod
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
— St. Isidore of Seville
The music of Mozart is of such purity and beauty that one feels he merely found it - that it has always existed as part of the inner beauty of the universe waiting to be revealed.
— Albert Einstein
Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
— Carl Sagan
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
— Henry David Thoreau
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.
— Philip James Bailey