Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2666 authors
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Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel that these phrases…
— Marcel Proust
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Have you ever felt so at one with the world, with the universe, with everything that is, that you were overcome with love? That is…
— Richard Bach
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There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have…
— Monique Wittig
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce…
— John Stuart Mill
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And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or…
— Anne Rice
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But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the…
— Christopher Paolini
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There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly…
— Don DeLillo
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We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there…
— Paulo Coelho
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
— Shirley Jackson
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ART Art is that thing having to do only with itself—the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. Unfortunately, there are…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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I still don't understand anything- exept that somehow I know that You are love. And that in my heart has been so great a love…
— Catherine Marshall
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When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out.…
— Marguerite Duras
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Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
— Robert Henri
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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
— Michael Shermer
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If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own…
— Libba Bray
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
— John Green
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