If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should…

To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter…

— Bryan Magee

We can imagine our bodies being destroyed, our brains ceasing to function, our bones turning to dust, but it is harder - some would…

— Paul Bloom

Mankind ought to end its existence of its own will.

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,

— Calvin Coolidge

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

— Zhuangzi

Dead may seem to be the end of everything but it can never be an end to the existence of truth.

— Terry Mark

What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it?…

— Audre Lorde

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for…

— Henry B. Eyring

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way…

— Bernadette Roberts

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

— David Chalmers

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence…

— James Boswell

Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it…

— Rajneesh

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught…

— Morris West

I can accept the theory of relativity as little as I can accept the existence of atoms and other such dogmas.

— Ernst Mach