“If you're not worried about dying, you're not really living, you're just existing.”— Emily Ballou, Dr. George Millican, William Hurt, imdb.com
“Everything changes, and nothing really changes. People die, new people are born, and we exist in between.”— Melissa Rosenberg, Jessica Jones, Krysten Ritter, imdb.com
“In life we are given two choices: we can exist or we can experience what it means to be alive.”— Stephanie Anne, instagram.com
“You no longer feel happy or sad; you just exist, but you don’t feel alive.”— Rayi Noormega, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nobody asks to be born. No one signs a form that says, You have my permission to make me exist. Babies are born, because parents feel that they themselves are not enough. So, parents, never condemn us for trying to fill our existential holes, when we are but the fruit of your own vain attempts to fi…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“You know what really gets me about all of this, is that I was fine before you, maybe happy even. Just kind of existing in the middle. But you show up, uninvited but welcome, make everything all bright and shiny. And then you left and now everything is gray.”— R. M. Drake, tumblr.com
“It’s not about being happy, that is the thing. I’m just trying to get through each day. I can’t keep asking myself ‘Am I happy? ‘ It just makes me more miserable. I don’t know If I believe in it, real lasting happiness, All those perky, well-adjusted people you see in movies and TV shows ? I don’t t…”— Diane Nguyen, Alison Brie, imdb.com
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”— Jorge Luis Borges, theguardian.com
“I had willingly entered into an unwinnable chess game, casting myself in the role of the young, dumb literary stereotype because at least I would get a chance to exist at all.”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com
“Don’t just exist; do something meaningful with your life. Discover a problem and fix it.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“When you begin leaning into the awareness... accepting where you are... this is when you begin creating a life you want to live instead of simply existing or reacting.”— Debra Smouse, thoughtcatalog.com
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world... by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”— Ken Kesey, amazon.com
“Don't exist. Live. Get out, explore. Thrive. Challenge authority. Challenge yourself. Evolve. Change forever. Become who you say you always will. Keep moving. Don't stop. Start the revolution. Become a freedom fighter. Become a superhero. Just because everyone doesn't know your name doesn't mean you…”— Brian Krans, amazon.com
“When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I don’t know how to exist properly in the same space as someone I don’t love anymore.”— Trista Mateer, tristamateer.com
“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”— Rebecca McNutt, amazon.com
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com