Exist Quotes

4294 quotes by 2666 authors

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation. — Stephen Crane
It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell… — Ayn Rand
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would make it easier for you to… — Paulo Coelho
I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I… — C.S. Lewis
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves… — Geraldine McCaughrean
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am… — Rick Bass
Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need… — Terry Pratchett
If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist. — Patricia Briggs
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and… — Terry Pratchett
I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't. — Vladimir Nabokov
So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several… — Amin Maalouf
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist. — Madeleine L'Engle
I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. — George Orwell
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. — Rebecca West
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot… — Ernest Hemingway
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one. — Junot Diaz
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When… — Jean-Paul Sartre

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