Existence Quotes

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

....With pulleys and ropes and time to plan one could move anything. Now that she thought of it, why...

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help BookorHow you can survive in the Cosmos about which you know ...

How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live...

He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass hi...

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, ar...

It is necessary for him who would endure existence with patience that he should conceive himself to ...

The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.

No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existen...

Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to...

In one form or the other, the quest for human dignity has proved to be one of the most propulsive el...

David: And you think it can just evaporate? Even if at one time they loved one another?Marx: That's ...

Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one no...

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is ...

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted f...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potent...

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of li...

Sitting here, literally amongst the dead, reckoning up gains and losses, casting accounts, I have co...

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them ...

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than t...

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasio...

Of whom and of what can I say: "I know that"! This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it e...

It is a matter of living in that state of the absurd I know on what it is founded, this mind and thi...

It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the con...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed t...

He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either po...

I took my pill at eleven. An hour and half later I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a sm...

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections ma...

No rest without love, no sleep without dreams of love- be mad or chill obsessed with angels or machi...

Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we c...

All objects exist in a moment of time.

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recall...

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our ...

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out toward...

... each of us describes our existence by means of objects which are indifferent to us, which surviv...

And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life.

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task a...

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time ...

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive in...

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secu...

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is j...

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an enti...

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it. Reason is t...

Whatever the degree of your knowledge, these two—existence and consciousness—are axioms you cannot e...

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of...

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retireme...

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfec...

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

We see, surrounding the narrow raft illuminated by the flickering light of human comradeship, the da...

As humans we are inclined to feel that life must have a point. We have plans and aspirations and des...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men ...

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at ...

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling ...

I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should al...

The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't eve...

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There ...

We make our purpose.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no ot...

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He ...

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. A...

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your under...

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often b...

Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; C...

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to w...

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matt...

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of ...

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and...

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something ...

The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its ho...

Leonardo believed his research had thepotential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last y...

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.