Existence Quote by Adrianne Lenker

As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

— Haruki Murakami

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence…

— Natalie Goldberg

We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and…

— Marilyn Ferguson

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love...

— Bible

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be…

— Frederick Buechner

We are born knowing death.

— Katherine Anne Porter

And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation.…

— Nirmala Srivastava

We have an idea - a very modern idea - that dying is undignified. But I think this is because we have the illusion…

— Meghan O'Rourke

An awareness and understanding of death raises our state of life.

— Senora Roy

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different…

— John Hodgman

We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for…

— Dwight Longenecker