1,690 Quotes About Existence

Why are we so afraid to die? Are we concerned about the reckoning we may have to face on the other side? Or does the thought of our nonexistence terrify us? Perhaps neither. Perhaps what we fear most is no longer being able to do the things we love.

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which survive us, and which are then thrown back into the common stock from which they are soon gathered again and ascribed other roles in other circumstances.

All that exists is the present moment

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

I feel therefore I am.

The moment of existence is miraculous.

La vie humaine n'a lieu qu'une seule fois et nous ne pourrons jamais vérifier quelle était la bonne et quelle était la mauvaise décision, parce que, dans toute situation, nous ne pouvons décider qu'une seule fois. Il ne nous est pas donnée une deuxième, une troisième, une quatrième vie pour que nous puissions comparer différentes décisions.

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.