The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On my view there is no net benefit to coming into existence and thus coming into existence is never worth its costs. — David Benatar Copy Share Image
I see no comparison between the past and future, both constants share the same ideology. For me the present is the truth. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“One existence, one music, one organism, one life, one God: star-fire and rock-strength, the sea's cold flow And man's dark soul.” — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
You are...Well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to… — Hank Williams Jr Copy Share Image
I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every work of art needs a spine – an underlying theme, a motive for coming into existence. It doesn't have to be… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love to pose to anyone who seems… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Technological revolutions are very hard to predict. My favourite example is someone in 1850 taking care of horses as a farrier. They… — Reed Hastings Copy Share Image
The war being waged against the radical imagination, particularly around young people, is just startling. Young people are laboring under a burden… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
It seems to me that Mr. Sculley understood the very nucleus of existence, that he had kept his young eyes and young… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“What is the future of men who have lost sight of the past? Earl Hollsopple lived on the edge of civilization in… — Jennifer Ott Copy Share Image
While I am watching the birds I believe I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The atheist would never believe that the spiritual realm exists, unless the spiritual realm decides to scare them with a near-death or… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin,… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
If I could change the structure of existence I would do it. I could see a better way to live for everybody. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas." ( "The devil's finest trick is to persuade… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence. — Gabriel Faure Copy Share Image
“You gave me something…no, someone…to live for. There was no reason for my existence before you.” — Shay Savage Copy Share Image
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
