Existence Quotes · Page 52

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.

— Rumi

“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.”

— Ricardo Reis

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in…

— Nhat Hanh

Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve…

— Frank Herbert

War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or…

— Elbert Hubbard

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

— Anna Katharine Green

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can…

— Steven L. Peck

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real.”

— Isaac Hooke

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be…

— Bertrand Russell

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and…

— Jake Busey

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing…

— William Faulkner

All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.

— Luke Johnson

Subatomic particles do not exist but rather show 'tendencies to exist', and atomic events do not occur with certainty at definite times…

— Fritjof Capra

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

— H. L. Mencken

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and…

— Oscar Wilde

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

— Henry Louis Gates

We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves.…

— Frederick Lenz

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

— Walter Kirn

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence.

— Zig Ziglar

We really cannot forget about the existence of the avid game fans - the fans of Nintendo games.

— Satoru Iwata