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Existence Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer…
- A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
- You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
- All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned…
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from…
- To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded…
- No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle…
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,…
- ...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...
- It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share…
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into… — David Attenborough
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. — Honore de Balzac
- Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
- I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. — David Bailey
- But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the… — Henry Adams
- There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. — Charles Baudelaire