Existence Quotes

"The paradox is one of our most valuable spiritual possessions" "Reality is always neutral, it just is." "Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "We're all stories, in the end." "The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live." "The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed" "If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on" "Dust unto dust, to this end we must come" "Live for something rather than die for nothing" "You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime" "The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life." "We shall all, without exception, be forgotten." "Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not" "The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale." "To live at all is miracle enough." "Life itself is the proper binge" "To philosophize is to learn to die" "In Algeria, I had begun to get used to the idea that death could strike without warning" "To exist is to dare to throw oneself into the world" "Some people have lives some people have music"