Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter,… — James Boswell
A challenge so far-reaching in its impact and irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human existence... There is no doubt that the… — Tony Blair
The elemental fact, present in our consciousness every moment of our existence, is: I am life that wills to live, in the midst of life… — Albert Schweitzer
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. — Douglas Coupland
Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal… — David Foster Wallace
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love for… — Gerald May
To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the… — Jon Krakauer
Love is the wild card of existence. — Rita Mae Brown
I hope that my new status will be an example of Israeli-Palestinian co-existence, I believe that the destinies of the Israeli people and the Palestinian… — Daniel Barenboim
The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must… — Albert Einstein
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the… — Ferdinand Mount
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority belong to the private-school stage… — Virginia Woolf
What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it… — Michel Foucault
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity… — Elwyn Brooks White
Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it… — Wayne Teasdale
Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love and compassion are… — Wayne Teasdale
Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence… — Geneen Roth
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even more. He is… — Gautama Buddha
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of… — Gautama Buddha
Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind… — Gautama Buddha
Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning… — Gautama Buddha
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow. When you delight in existence, you will awaken, and become a guide to those in… — Gautama Buddha
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. — Gautama Buddha

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