1,690 Quotes About Existence

When I look at the beautiful blessedness of life, I find the joy of existence.

I don’t know what understanding myself is. I don’t look inside.I don’t believe I exist behind myself.

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making excuses to himself for a teacher who flatters him, of waking up some morning to find himself admiring a girl merely because she is accessible. He has a dread of easy compromises, and he is terribly afraid of being fooled.

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.

Work. Or school. This is for the money. But what is anything else, for that matter, but required means of enhancing your bare living – better sleep and better food – like spending decades just to turn a little knob higher on a pathetic radio called existence.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us.

Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.

If God had been like a toad, you could have rid the globe of toads, but when God was like yourself, it was no good being content with stone figures — you had to kill yourself among the graves.