Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our… — Swami Vivekananda
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran
Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I… — Ian Fleming
Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a… — Don DeLillo
Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead? — Galway Kinnell
If that hideousness came here [to the U.S.], it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals-they are all bound for a ghastly death anyway.… — Ingrid Newkirk
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact… — Frank Herbert
Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe… — F. Paul Wilson
If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence.… — Jefferson Davis
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance. — Alan Dean Foster
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? — Diogenes
Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should… — Andrei Tarkovsky
And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance. — Pier Paolo Pasolini
Everyone must concede that there is in existence something wiser than himself. Now there is a challenge, there is a challenge which few even investigate.… — Vernon Howard
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common… — Eric Hoffer
The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. — Augustine Birrell
Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match… — Andre Agassi
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the… — Boris Johnson
That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Unrest is the mark of existence. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. — Unknown Author
I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will… — Maggie Gallagher
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. — Benjamin Disraeli

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