But the most wretched thing, is it not-is to drag out, as I do, a useless existence. If our pains were only… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want… — Adam Arkin Copy Share Image
Art is a habit-forming drug. Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth. People always speak of it with this great,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. But existence exists; reality is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Advertising design, in persuading people to buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, in order to impress others who… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
I've worked on shows where the actors don't talk to each other, and if they want to talk to each other, they… — Rocky Carroll Copy Share Image
“The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized… — Hewitt E. Moore Copy Share Image
I feel very fortunate to be currently in the position where I can choose to be an actor, writer, director, or all… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
I have dedicated my time here on earth to find the tools that can help each of us experience an extraordinary quality… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our… — John Frederick Nims Copy Share Image
“And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
If somebody postulates the existence of more than one god, I would have to say we don't worship the same god. If… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
If I deny the existence of a God - if I deny the idea of a gold paved city with pearly walls… — Etta Semple Copy Share Image
It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman’s body. For me, a woman who… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The meaning of this is, that whomsoever we love, in him we find our own soul in the highest sense. The final… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
What kind of believer are you? Do you believe IN God?. Or do you believe God? There is a major distinction. People… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The artificial products do not have any molecular dissymmetry; and I could not indicate the existence of a more profound separation between… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
It was an important part of Mendelssohn's philosophical and religious view that the traditional rationalist proofs for God's existence should be sound… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason,… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
