Existence precedes and rules essence.
Love is the world's river of life
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
The purpose of life is life.
Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
What is there in life except one's ideas, Good air, good friend, what is there in life?
To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
Life's objective is life itself.
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.
When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace. You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.
When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.
It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain gravity? No one now objects to following out the results consequent on this unknown element of attraction.
Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself.
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.
Life behind all form is one, the expressions of that life are not of very great importance.
