Existence Quotes

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever pos...

Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds hi...

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or ju...

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by ge...

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

If the universe doesn't care about us and if we're an accident in a remote corner of the universe, i...

I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necess...

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our exi...

Maybe there’s a heaven, like they say, a place where everything we’ve ever done is noted and recorde...

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? ...

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to res...

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch b...

What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces...

It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything...

I put down my cup and examine my own mind. It is for it to discover the truth. But how? What an abys...

Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. S...

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.

But other hordes would come, and other false prophets. Our feeble efforts to ameliorate man’s lot wo...

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists ...

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his ...

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely a...

Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun...

And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; y...

Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every ...

If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “...

But “nowhere” does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of th...

Either god exists or it doesn’t exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in...

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste...

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatur...

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no do...

It from bit. It’s an unorthodox theory, which starts with the assumption that information is at the ...

To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Boh...

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine ...

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see th...

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most nai...

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. A...

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, w...

It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubt...

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting o...

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worl...

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison...

Boredom slays more of existence than war.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

My coming brought no profit to the sky,Nor does my going swell its glory;My two ears have never hear...

I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo...

My father once told methat there are no gods;only the cruel manipulationsof evil peoplewho pretended...

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an ins...

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds...

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the...

Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerou...

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is ...

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...

Yes, but perhaps he did have something to do with it.” (In such arguments Stenham often found himsel...

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed ...

Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look a...

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that sci...

Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this ...

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. ...

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Yes, yes, yes, he felt uncontrollable tenderness for his own shit-filled life. And a laughable hunge...

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common ...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us th...

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the ...

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells...

Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a ...

Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis...

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear th...

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities th...

It is a strange fact, incidentally, that religious apologists love the anthropic principle. For some...

The police are the public and the public are the police the police being only members of the public ...

What is this thing called life? I believeThat the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering ...

The main difference in the effectiveness of teaching comes from the thoughts the teacher has had dur...

The world is awash with colours unseen and abuzz with unheard frequencies. Undetected and disregarde...

Together we'll make magic...Who had conjured whom?She seemed to remember Oliver suggesting this once...

I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything do...

Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The c...

And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And per...