Existence Quotes
4253 quotes by 2275 authors
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.
— John Boehner
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Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.
— John Boehner
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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the…
— Vanna Bonta
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I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their…
— David Bowie
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
— Andre Breton
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
— Emily Bronte
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're…
— Dan Brown
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from…
— Pam Brown
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In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a…
— Harry Browne
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as…
— James Buchan
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision…
— James Buchan
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of…
— Frederick Buechner
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
— Robert Burns
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being…
— Alan Alda
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As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural…
— Nicolas Cage
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