Existence Quotes · Page 228

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in…

— Augustine Birrell

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that…

— Auberon Herbert

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too…

— Laurence Housman

“When one falls his shadow always embraces him, and his empty place is already someone else's. Kushal Poddar, Poet”

— Kushal Poddar, Poet

All objects exist in a moment of time.

— Amy Tan

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

... men as a rule are more preoccupied with the dangers that threaten their life than interested in the biological forces on…

— Rene Dubos

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Happy and thrice happy are those who enjoy an uninterrupted union, and whose love, unbroken by any sour complaints, shall not dissolve…

— Horace

We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize…

— William J. Clinton

“Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers,…

— Charles Mackay

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced…

— Christopher Lasch

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

— Albert Schweitzer

“The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they…

— Athanasius of Alexandria

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great…

— Arthur Adamov

I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

— Oliver Sykes

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

— El-P

Amy Poehler did a really cute thing, [] [her son] said his prayers before he went to sleep that she was going…

— Michael Schur

Humankind has no idea what existence is, at this stage. They're all dreaming, they're all asleep... Once in a great while a…

— Frederick Lenz

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is…

— Frederick Lenz

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to…

— Gore Vidal

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same.…

— Guy Finley

Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something…

— Betty Edwards