Existence Quotes

4253 Existence quotes by 2188 unique authors

We live that our souls may grow. The development of the soul is the purpose of existence. God Almighty is trying to obtain some decent… — John G. Lake
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite… — Alphonsus Liguori
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.… — Horace Mann
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such as the complexity… — Dalai Lama
You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to… — Oprah Winfrey
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine… — Walter Benjamin
That which you have received, you should be grateful for it. And the most beautiful phenomenon is that when you are grateful, existence starts pouring… — Rajneesh
In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities… — Mark Twain
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent... — Napoleon Bonaparte
Seventy-five years. That's how much time you get if you're lucky. Seventy-five years. Seventy-five winters, seventy-five springtimes, seventy-five summers, and seventy-five autumns. When you look… — Eddie Murphy
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me… — George Bernard Shaw
The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings… — H.G. Wells
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is… — Thomas a Kempis
Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to… — Amiri Baraka
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,… — Oscar Wilde
Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away. — Joseph Wood Krutch
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into… — Christopher Fry
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… — Joseph Conrad
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose. — Walter Savage Landor
There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. — O. Henry
The art of life is to show your hand. — E. V. Lucas
A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the… — John Keats

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