Existence One Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?…
— Albert Einstein
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has…
— Eugene Ionesco
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But even if ego-death is regarded as the optimum model for human existence, one of liberation from ourselves, it still remains a compromise with being,…
— Thomas Ligotti
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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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When one is in love with existence one feels such blessing, such bliss, that it is natural to bow down in deep gratitude.
— Rajneesh
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This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur…
— Will Richardson
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Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.
— Norman Mailer
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason…
— Terry Eagleton
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little…
— Norman Mailer
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One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a…
— Morris West
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Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in…
— Sigmund Freud
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They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when…
— Max Brooks
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Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
— David Markson
Who Wrote These Existence One Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Existence One Quotes as follows: