Our Existence Quotes

237 Our Existence quotes by 197 unique authors

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and… — Spike Lee
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or… — Henri Nouwen
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won’t. Especially not astrophysicists -we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is. — Anis Mojgani
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity. — Mary Baker Eddy
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the… — Henri Nouwen
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence. — Maya Angelou
If not then you must be trying to hear us and in such cases we cannot be heard. We remain in the darkness, unseen. In… — Saul Williams
If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways. — Aung San Suu Kyi
The intimate relation between humor and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. Laughter is our reaction… — Reinhold Niebuhr
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on… — Steven Pressfield
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world,… — Robert Musil
I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated… — Konrad Lorenz
Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not. — Reinhold Niebuhr
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence… — Thom Mayne
Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt… — Mahatma Gandhi
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in… — Queen Elizabeth II
An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of… — Nikola Tesla
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the… — Edmund White
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life. — Charlotte Bunch
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman
One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a… — Noam Chomsky

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