Own Existence Quotes

115 quotes by 90 authors

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we… — Paul Auster
If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. — Margaret Cho
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that… — Thomas Berry
It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized… — George H. Smith
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone... each of us can… — George H. Bender
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. — Gao Xingjian
The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from… — Simone de Beauvoir
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the… — Lynn Flewelling
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. — Augustine Birrell
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Could hell be a place where there is no self-respect? A place where people have no pride in their own existence or behavior, and thus… — Neil Peart
Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried… — Tracey Emin
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then nothing. I had… — Sebastian Faulks
What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own… — Antonio Damasio
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. — Bill Mollison
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon
When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own existence… — Greg L. Bahnsen

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