We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.” — Jason Krumbine Copy Share Image
“free fall to your quite smile to capture you and you propel me to death, all that we write destroys then heals” — Gwen Calvo Copy Share Image
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I think love is the wild card of existence. Don’t rule it out. Old as we are, it may still get thrown… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. — El-P Copy Share Image
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
One thing I had learned in college was that if you ever had a question about truth, reality, or the meaning of… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
“We even, at the worst, reach the state for which Buddhism, in the East presents most ably the case: as in the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Real, sensational existence is that which is not dependent on my own mental spontaneity or activity … But God is not seen,… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
The main problem with those who deny the existence of God is not intellectual. It is not because of insufficient information, or… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image