"What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?"

Existence, Breath, Life, Identity

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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

Existence, Life, Death, Experience

"The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Existence, Luck, Life, Humor, Truth

"That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?''Yes' Billy, in fact, had a paperweight in his office which was a blob of polished amber with three ladybugs embedded in it.'Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

Existence, Time, Now, Moment

"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher

Existence, Being, Philosophy, Life

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Existence,

"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."

Friedrich Engels, German Philosopher

Existence, Judgment, Reason

"Ain't you thinkin' what's it gonna be like when we get there? Ain't you scared it won't be nice like we thought?No, she said quickly. No, I ain't. You can't do that. I can't do that. It's too much - livin' too many lives. Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Existence, Life, Fear, Hope, Future

"Do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Existence, Nothing, Creation, Meaning

"The sacredness of existence is spiritual."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Existence, Spiritual, Life, Soul

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"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . ."

Serenity

"There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight."

Mortality

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

Mortality

"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker."

Listening

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."

Revenge

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

Future

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."

Harmony

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"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

"The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value."

"And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."

"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."

"Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece."

"Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."

"Do something from nothing for nothing is nothing unless it is made something. There is always something common with something and nothing and that is the 'thing."

"The sacredness of existence is spiritual."

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"Poverty is the mother of crime."

"Praise does not make anything better or worse."

"Do not be ashamed of help."

"There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight."

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker."

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."