Existence Quotes

I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking momen...

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life...

I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have b...

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficul...

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a...

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong ...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue...

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figur...

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is the...

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go ...

I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its...

Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?....

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am ...

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted s...

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate f...

A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow ...

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain...

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain an...

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of ...

I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to thei...

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy lookin...

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no ...

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the De...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existenc...

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be ...

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...