Exist Quotes

4294 quotes by 2666 authors

I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally… — Salman Rushdie
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and… — Terry Pratchett
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle… — Curtis Sittenfeld
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories.… — John Marsden
...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more.… — Knut Hamsun
He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained… — Aravind Adiga
Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others… — Mary Doria Russell
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary… — Nicole Krauss
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear… — Lauren Oliver
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? — Angela Carter
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every… — Viktor E. Frankl
Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to… — Gilles Deleuze
Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what… — Sarah Dessen
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can… — Boris Pasternak
But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted… — Margaret Atwood
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters… — Fernando Pessoa
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I thinkâ€¦ and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really… — Grant Morrison

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