Best Own Existence Sayings

115 Own Existence quotes by 90 unique authors

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had… — Bede Griffiths
Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact… — Rachel Cusk
Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence. — Richard Dawkins
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being… — Hermann Hesse
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility… — Thomas Merton
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. — Ronald Reagan
But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort… — Karl Rove
Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence. — Frank Zappa
Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of… — Ayn Rand
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us, the labyrinth is fully known;… — Joseph Campbell
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though… — Graham Greene
A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence. — Friedrich Schiller
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to… — Arthur Schopenhauer
A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and… — Thomas Merton
Bound to seek recognition of its own existence in categories, terms, and names that are not of its own making, the subject seeks the sign… — Judith Butler
But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having… — Carl Jung
The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;… — Isaac Asimov
I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence. — Douglas Adams
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was… — Jean-Paul Sartre
As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And… — Haruki Murakami
Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own… — Lisa Unger
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his… — Patrick SÃ¼skind

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