Exist Quotes

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From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered… — Niccolo Machiavelli
You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist.… — Ahdaf Soueif
People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to… — Gloria Whelan
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that death cuts the… — Marquis de Sade
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and… — John Piper
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow… — Hunter S. Thompson
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,… — Jack Kerouac
Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery,… — Michael Ende
Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is… — Saul Alinsky
Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take… — John Green
The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He… — John Steinbeck
the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs,… — D. H. Lawrence
. . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and… — Dan Millman
Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be… — Jason Mraz
rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt. — Ally Carter
.... When you have no voice, you don't exist — David Small
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But youâ€™ll have no sense of self… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Ugh! How many stories about love, copulation, marriage and death already exist, not one of which tells the truth! How sick I am of well-constructed… — Sadegh Hedayat
Whereas I think: Iâ€™m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which… — Ivan Turgenev

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