Quotes about Existence
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.
— Aldous Huxley
It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
— Euripides
While we live, let us live.
— DH Lawrence
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
— St. Augustine
Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.
— Elbert Hubbard
Time is an illusion-to orators.
— Elbert Hubbard
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
— Samuel Beckett
I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.
— Walt Whitman
Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson