“By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline, that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.”— Georg Simmel, amazon.com
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”— Albert Camus, gulfnews.com
“I am, he thought, a part of all that I have touched and that has touched me, which, having for me no existence save that which I gave to it, became other than itself by being mixed with what I then was, and is now still otherwise, having fused with what I now am, which is itself a cumulation of what…”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org
“I hear the wind blow, and I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”— Robyn Schneider, amazon.com
“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“My dear, It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe, For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.”— Robert Frost, amazon.com
“Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? Fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, i…”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”— Fred Rogers, amazon.com