“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.” — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Economics brings into full view that conflict of choice which is one of the permanent characteristics of human existence. — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human… — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty hugs our every decision like the stratosphere hugs the Earth. It is as crucial a part of human existence as oxygen.” — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
“The voice in the head that never stops speaking becomes a civilization that is obsessed with form and therefore knows nothing of… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The Buddha likened humans to the lotus flowers. Out of the deluded mud of human existence, filled with greed, hatred, and delusion,… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I ponder of something terrifying 'Cause this time there's no sound to hide behind I find over the course of our human… — Twenty one pilots Copy Share Image
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Saying that “life is short” is such a cliche. And it’s true. In fact, we only have five minutes to be here.… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“For others, however, the significance of anxiety in disclosing a fundamental insight into human existence is grasped. At this point their consciences… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“And they lived happily ever after” is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It is tragic because it tells a… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the conditions of human existence—life itself, natality and mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth—can never “explain” what we… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The human condition comprehends more than the conditions under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Death appears as the harsh victory of the law of our ancestors of the dimension of our becoming. It is a fact… — Frere Dupont Copy Share Image
“The Klassik Royal Nation, also known as the Klassikans, is a group of believers dating to 21st-century Kenya whose followers believe that… — Klassik Royal Nation Copy Share Image
“Consider the fact that we care deeply about what happens to the world after we die. If self-interests were the primary source… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Love was not a problem to solve or a choice to make, simply an involuntary feeling that explained human existence.” — Jewel E. Ann Copy Share Image
I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human. — Robert Gober Copy Share Image
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
