"And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive."

Existence, Awareness, Life, Emotion

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"And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive."

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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

"One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, / I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan 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

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"To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

Existence, Risk, Authenticity, Sanity

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

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"On embarking to return we could perceive no sign of One Tree Island; and as we swept down towards the sea the leafy top of a tree seen in the clear water under the boat was the only evidence of its existence; though a few hours ago it had formed so prominent an object."

George Grey, New Zealander Leader

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"Why do I want to run from happiness?"

Emotion

"My mind cannot grasp forever,' she told him. 'There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?"

Philosophy

"Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersticks?"

Character

"But that is what life is all about, he said. 'It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love."

Motivation

"Sometimes even the imagination lets one down."

Creativity

"One day you will learn that love does not always betray you."

Love

"Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?"

Love

"There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything."

Life

"The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?"

Aspiration

"But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him."

Family