Existence Quotes
4253 quotes by 2275 authors
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
— Samuel Butler
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all…
— Lord Byron
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But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see…
— Lord Byron
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I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt…
— James Caan
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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
— Albert Camus
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and…
— Albert Camus
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I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
— George Canning
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The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on…
— George Carlin
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
— John le Carre
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The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory.
— Giacomo Casanova
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I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our…
— David Chalmers
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
— Anton Chekhov
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If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.
— Margaret Cho
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system…
— Deepak Chopra
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access…
— Deepak Chopra
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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
— Deepak Chopra
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
— Winston Churchill
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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