Simple Existence Quotes

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe that one who deeply respects his neighborhood and everyday world in which he lives will be shown the greatest of all worlds.

Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.​ You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold​, comes at long last over everyone.

I’ve never thought much about whether I was happy or if I had fun as a child. I was a so-so girl who lived with a so-so family in a so-so village. I didn’t know that there might be another way to live, and I didn’t worry about it either.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

I have a pretty easy life.

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

I do live a simple existence.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life... I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.

I have a very easy life, I can wander around.