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I Think, Therefore I Am ... I Think ... — David Ski

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. — Franz Kafka

Saving and pinching to get married, you're losing the best time of your life. — Muriel Spark

All that is transitory is but a metaphor. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability. — Ivan Klima

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. — Paul Bowles

Scheming is mediocre. — Vipin Behari Goyal

Say not: I live today, I shall die tomorrow. Divide not reality between life and death. Say: now I live and die. — Marcel Schwob

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead. — Jim Holt

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things. — Chloe Thurlow

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality. — Rabih Alameddine

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don't try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive. — Steven L. Peck

Don't worry if you don't accomplish everything in this life. Fortunately, death overcomes every thing - even the very thing that tried to kill us. — Kamand Kojouri

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most. — Harshit Walia

Leave nothing for death but a burned-out castle — Nikos Kazantzakis

If it is death, I am dying every moment. If it is life, I am living every moment. — Vipin Behari Goyal

I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless. — Kahlil Gibran

You don't choose to choose what you choose in life! — Sam Harris

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber. — Kurt Vonnegut

In every life there are events that reshape one's sense of existence. Afterward, all is different and the past is dimmed. — Annie Proulx

I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness. — Ohran Pamuk

He had stylized himself
life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form. — Graham Greene

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. — Duncan McNaughton

What are all the thoughts rattling in your mind when you're not listening to the answers to questions you ask?
-Jo, Boom — Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer

If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Death is a continuation of my life without me... — Jean-Paul Sartre

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. — Oscar Wilde

We only have one life to live, and must go on with it to the end, that if we feel it is meaningless, then we ourselves must give it meaning. — Susan Moody

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought. — David Eagleman

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. — Albert Camus

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. — Stephen Chbosky

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies. — David Eagleman

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living? — Christopher Bram

Everything is true, and nothing is true! — Albert Camus

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. — Frank Herbert

We co-existed in peaceful detachment — Tsitsi Dangarembga

Life has no meaning a priori ... It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We are born from a quiet sleep, and we die to a calm awakening — Zhuangzi

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. — Tom Perrotta

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope. — Miguel De Unamuno

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. — Jose Saramago

Why are we here? We're here to go! — William S. Burroughs

CLOV:
Do you believe in the life to come?
HAMM:
Mine was always that. — Samuel Beckett

We need to start a new philisophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. — Jandy Nelson

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. — Saul Bellow

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. — Albert Camus

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected — James Wright

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it. — Nick Harkaway