Existentialism Quote by John Williams

“There was a softness around him, and a languor crept upon his limbs. A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden…

— John Williams

“He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself.”

— Lao Tzu

“It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see.…

— Cate Tiernan

“He liked the thought that his own power would one day be refined into translucence, with no memory of the blood and earth that…

— Jennifer Egan

“Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any…

— Alexandre Dumas

“He tried to keep on the right side of power, tried to be loyal to so many things that he himself couldn't tell which…

— Kiran Desai

“Something new and unexpected, something hitherto unknown and undreamt of, had taken place in him. He did not so much understand with his mind…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“And that was when I understood something I’d never be able to forget about this man. He was in control of himself first. It…

— Jenna Barton

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The main thing is that he be willing to believe in a Power greater than himself and that he live by spiritual principles.”

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“some man of power must have existed, with gifts that seemed miraculous to his own times.”

— Mary Stewart