Our Existence Quotes

237 Our Existence quotes by 197 unique authors

Where did love begin?What human being looked at another and saw in their face the forests and the sea? Was there a day, exhausted and… — Jeanette Winterson
Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on… — Margaret Atwood
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to… — Charles Bukowski
Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space and time. They… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and… — Steve Jobs
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils,… — Francis Bacon
I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the… — Paulo Coelho
We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for it in every… — Karen Marie Moning
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. — Ken Kesey
There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion," said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. "It can be built… — Arthur Conan Doyle
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To… — Michael Crichton
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying… — Josef Pieper
In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the… — Brandon Sanderson
...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents,… — Umera Ahmed
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three… — Anne Lamott
If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult… — Bruno Bettelheim
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot… — E. O. Wilson
And I've been waiting for you, because I couldn't do anything else. And we've both known that we would meet again, and then it would… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a… — John C. Maxwell
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence. I have formed during the last few years such… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens

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