1,690 Quotes About Existence

Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.

…existence is to all men a thing to be chosen and loved, and that we exist by virtue of activity (i.e. by living and acting), and that the handiwork is in a sense, the producer in activity; he loves his handiwork, therefore, because he loves existence.

A belief in violets isn't necessary for violets to exist.

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.

Each moment is now. Reality amounts to flickering lapses in time, as infinite layers of now. And with this constant motion we think of ourselves as being at rest. When in actuality we are zooming through space.

You can be anything you want to be as long as you know who you are. Paradoxically, once you realize this, you begin to lose your sense of self.

Stephen Hawking asks, 'what did God do before he created the Universe?' Answer: He created Nothing