Existence Quote by Jacques Ellul

It is notoriously difficult to define the word living.

— Francis Crick

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then…

— Francis Collins

While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.

— Cyril Connolly

WHATEVER Life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common…

— Anonymous

To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

— Bertolt Brecht

The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and…

— Romano Guardini

The very word "exist" derives from "to step forth, to stand out".

— Erik Naggum

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

— Freya Stark

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

— Charles Fillmore

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

— Anthony Burgess

“The thoughtless habit of using the words “existence” and “exist” as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being…

— Martin Heidegger

Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning,…

— Georges Bataille