Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2666 authors
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She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
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There are two kinds of beauty, one being of the soul and the other of the body, That of the soul is revealed through intelligence,…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such…
— Leo Tolstoy
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All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
— Margaret Atwood
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If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of…
— Douglas Adams
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See it was like this when we waltz into this place. A couple of papish cats is doing an Aztec two-step And I says Dad…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie…
— Sloane Crosley
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People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because…
— Mark Haddon
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...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to…
— Terri Blackstock
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You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
— Jodi Picoult
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.…
— Shirley Jackson
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Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want…
— Anais Nin
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It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
— Jay Leno
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In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
— Tristan Tzara
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A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my…
— Stephane Mallarme
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Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.
— Emily Bronte
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