Existing Quotes

“When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals

“When you are just EXISTING, life happens to you… and you manage; when you are truly LIVING, you happen to life… and you lead.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Instead, shake things up today! Live through today. Don’t just exist through it - LIVE through it!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Basically, being alive means keeping yourself ready for the sky to fall in on you at any time. If you start from the assumption that existence is only an ordeal, a test we have to pass, then you’re equipped to deal with its sorrows and its surprises. If you persist in expecting it to give you something it can’t give, that just proves that you haven’t understood anything. Take things as they come; don’t turn them into a drama. You’re not piloting the ship, you’re following the course of your destiny.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul

“The daily hummingbird assaults existence with improbability.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters

“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.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“The miracle of existing completely together in this way for even one moment on God’s earth, she thinks. If never again in her life another, only to be here now, with him.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Life is full of running. The key to a life lived or an existence tolerated is held in the single decision as to the direction in which we will run.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“To keep holding onto something
that is long gone -
is like existing
inside a void of emptiness
that could have been
an entire universe by now.”
― Laura Chouette

“There has to be something left, Fleur.
A petal, a carpel, anything that may
have propelled itself into that air.
Fought to breathe, to exist.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“-القصص الحقيقية ترويها الجثث، أما التصورات والتخيلات فيخبرها أولئك الصراصير الجبناء الذين عاشوا وهم يراقبون الأحداث من بعيد، يختبئون من عين العاصفة ويتتبعون الحياة تلصصاً.”
― فايز غازي، Fayez Ghazi

“Far too often we miss life by doing something that we call ‘life.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Find a cause you truly believe in, and then be prepared to live and die for it. That is the exact way to live and not exist. - Seun Ayilara”
― Seun Ayilara

“We fluctuate between joy and sorrow. That's okay. That's the thing about being human”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Amid historic isolation, we should unlock our potentials and become more creative to be able to continue existing and coexisting.”
― Nadine Sadaka Boulos

“Existing in this physical form, in this particular moment, is nearly unbearable.”
― Meg Fee, Places I Stopped on the Way Home: A Memoir of Chaos and Grace

“I realized, as all survivors must, that being alive isn’t the same thing as living.”
― Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

“I don't have a natural-born affinity, if that's what you're asking. I don't clean everything in sight or lure mortals to a watery death or grant you answers to whatever questions you might have if you trap me. We just exist- to rule.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Existimos, simplemente, en función de lo que llega, somos quienes somos por puro azar.”
― Hiromi Kawakami, De pronto oigo la voz del agua

“What is existence? Existence is any state of the Being. Matter as it is, unaware of itself, exists regardless of “not” knowing that it exists. Still, as a part of a larger whole, any particle of matter contains information that serves that particle's specific purpose and the whole's purpose. Only nothing is not existence. But, without Nothing, existence would not be possible, so the Nothing is an essential part of existence. Still, we may say that only existing with some awareness is worth living.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“It is not about how long you have been around. It is about how helpful your existence has been.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“Breathing, moving, existing yet feeling nothing, as if life is a story being told to someone else.”
― Susan Shrestha

“I know I've spent my whole life just trying to convince myself I'm worth the trouble of my own existence.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“Just as Mrs Bae's passive-aggressive gestures and comments build up over time and stifled me, I imagine she was frustrated and exhausted by her need for validation. The incidents carried little meaning on their own, but they collected like atom and turned into something with substance. But it wasn't my fault, unless existing is a crime.”
― Gu Byeong-mo, The Old Woman with the Knife

“But that’s par for the course with existing, because life is senseless, and on the off chance we find something that does make sense, we hold onto it as tightly as we can. I found myself because of you.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“It is so long since I have had a chance to live a day. You know we don’t live at Ashburn ... we just exist.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blythes Are Quoted

“Some run through life to win trophies, and while they run, they miss out on life‘s true meaning.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“In the land of the living, it is only the dead who is permitted to give excuses.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“There are life lessons we learn when we’re part of the action, then there are lessons we learn by taking a step back by allowing others to also rise to their occasion.”
― Sasha Laghonh