Exist Quotes

4294 quotes by 2666 authors

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that… — William S. Burroughs
Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive… — James Clavell
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the… — Jodi Picoult
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing. — A. S. Byatt
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. — Sydney Smith
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist. — William Trevor
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. Itâ€™s a place that does not exist. — Alessandro Baricco
For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end… — Saint Augustine
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razorâ€™s edge, sharper than a houndâ€™s tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is… — Philip K. Dick
A â€œcollectiveâ€ mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual… — Ayn Rand
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. — Fernando Pessoa
In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as… — Primo Levi
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of… — Haruki Murakami
Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from. — Glen Duncan
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
So you think that money is the root of all evil? [...] Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a… — Ayn Rand

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