Existence Quotes · Page 32

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

— Anthony Daniels

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

— Aristotle

Humour is the be-all and end-all medicine of human existence.

— Debra Granik

I felt blessed by the existence of Horace Porter's 'Campaigning With Grant.'

— Ron Chernow

“I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person.”

— Fernado Pessoa

The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

— Stephen Hawking

“Any day could be your last day of existence?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night.

— Paul O'Grady

When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

— George Carlin

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence,

— Jamsetji Tata

My existence in Hollywood is a political statement, because there are so few women who are plus-sized or above a size 6.

— Shannon Purser

“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.”

— K.J. Wignall

Germany will militarize herself out of existence, England will expand herself out of existence, and America will spend herself out of existence.

— Vladimir Lenin

There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.

— Carlos Fuentes

...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...

— Joseph Conrad

If you take away the Jewish contribution to Christianity, there would be no Christianity. Judaism does not need Christianity to explain its…

— John Hagee

Of distinction by birth or badge, [Americans] had no more idea than they had of the mode of existence in the moon…

— Thomas Jefferson

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God… Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God.…

— Anonymous

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members…

— Alastair Campbell

Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the…

— Meghan Daum

While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices...…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their…

— Abraham Kuyper

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press…

— Stephen Colbert

Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your…

— David Benioff

Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home…

— Romain Rolland

Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more…

— John Welwood

“…sense of futility that comes from doing anything merely to prove to yourself that you can do it: having a child, climbing…

— Jean Baudrillard

The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And…

— Sallust

I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,…

— Maimonides

Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,…

— Raymond Geuss

“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.”

— João Mendes

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

— H. L. Mencken

I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.

— Neve Campbell

As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

— Nadine Gordimer

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

— Pat Conroy

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

— Donald Barthelme