Exist Quotes
4294 quotes by 2666 authors
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Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that…
— Joseph Heller
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You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No…
— Malcolm X
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Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.
— Eoin Colfer
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Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
— Simone Weil
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the…
— William Gibson
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It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the…
— Alan Moore
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If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare…
— Pablo Neruda
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True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The soul is the form of the body, but not as the shape of a statue is formatio et terminatio materiae, for form does not…
— Michael Flynn
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
— Oscar Wilde
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The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.
— Terry Pratchett
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My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves…
— Fernando Pessoa
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You really saw some?" Liz said an hour later. Sure, we had the stereo blaring and the shower running, but Liz still whispered, "They really...exist?"…
— Ally Carter
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The mind creates those things that exist.
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You…
— Diane Setterfield
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Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.
— Joel Osteen
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Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
— Kathy Acker
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Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects…
— Jean-Luc Godard
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The wishes might not come true the way you think they will, not everything will be perfect, but love will come because it always does,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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