168 Quotes About Existing

If safety is my goal, living life is not.

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

But a human being, she, she, cannot simply exist; she is a hurricane, every thought bending and crossing its coherence inside her, nothing will let her be, not for a moment. Every emotion, every thought, is invaded by another.

Magic had always been a part of the empire—for some people it was like breathing. How was it okay to make existing illegal?

Rolling a cigarette is like telling your mum you exist.

By mid-March, I was on COVID-19 lock down in my home due to being a high risk individual with pre-existing conditions.

A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it.

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are.