Existence Quotes
Karl Lagerfeld
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.
3099 Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
1516 N.K. Jemisin
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.
4524 Henry Miller
The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.
2242 Isidor Isaac Rabi
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for the world. It gives a deeper meaning to morality and another dimension to esthetics.
1561 Michael Bassey Johnson
Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.
2441 Sovereign Voice
Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.
2542 Sameh Elsayed
For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence.
2161 Frances J. Woodward
To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance.
2959 Czesław Miłosz
The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness
And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,
And for me, now as then, it is too much.
There is too much world.
4683 Travis J. Dahnke
Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.
4652 Leigh Hershkovich
We sit together in the waiting room of one existence, waiting to be shuffled into the waiting room of the next. Not the existence of another lifetime, simply a different mindset, a different age, purpose, exile and a separate redemption. A separate world in which to wait.
1134 Herbert Simon
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
2219 Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]
2053 Rachel Carson
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.
2782 Emil Cioran
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live -moreover, the only one.
4657 Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
4048 Patrick Ness
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.
1808 Tom Robbins
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.
1601 Werner Erhard
Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
2472 Lewis Thomas
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.
4895 Tiffany Madison
True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.
4683 R. N. Prasher
When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so.
2770 Rebecca McNutt
You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.
4786 Yukio Mishima
Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.
2742 Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
2124 Parmenides
We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.
4924 Roman Payne
Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?
4335 Aberjhani
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
3700 Jean Toomer
It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.
2021 A.J. Ayer
It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.
1994 Piet Hein
Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.
3926 Tomislav Sunic
Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
4908 Walpola Rahula
There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.
1926 Emil Cioran
Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.
Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern.
3478 George Orwell
It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones
4405 Aniekee Tochukwu
Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.
1756 Swami Prabhavananda
That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends - know that...
2690 Swami Prabhavananda
I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.
Nor can I say that I know him not....
Nor do I know that I know him not.
3103 Steven L. Peck
[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
1519 Richard Ronald Allan
Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.
4688 Sameh Elsayed
Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion.
1266 Albert Camus
Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live.
1574 Hermann Hesse
Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.
2527 Epicurus
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)
3120 Thornton Wilder
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
1506 J. Courtney Sullivan
How could a person have and do all these stupid things-clip coupons and double lock the front door-and then one day just cease to exist?
2334 James Jones
Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.
2237 Tom Conrad
In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George.
4035 Peter Kreeft
If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.
1153 A.W. Tozer
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
2188 Bill Gaede
Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists.
3155 Stanisław Lem
What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'
'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose-a god who simply is.
3080 Cormac McCarthy
Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.
4682 Kedar Joshi
Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.
3188 Thomas F. Torrance
God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.
2636 Lailah Gifty Akita
Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.
4541 Rainer Maria Rilke
Look: the trees exist; the houses
we dwell in stand there stalwartly.
Only we
pass by it all, like a rush of air.
And everything conspires to keep quiet
about us,
half out of shame perhaps, half out of
some secret hope.
1668 Donna Woolfolk Cross
She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.
1194 Stephen Crane
A Man Said to the Universe
A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.
2060 Cormac McCarthy
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
1310 Carl Sagan
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.
1389 Marilynne Robinson
You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
2523 J.T Abraham
The Structure is bigger than the concept.
1162 Doug Dillon
The stars up there at night are closer than you think.
2917 John Corey Whaley
Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.
1323 Doug Dillon
Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence.
2717 Doug Dillon
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
4489 Nikki Rowe
there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure.
3870 Christos Yannaras
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode-a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.
2521 Chris Matakas
If something’s existence is contingent upon the existence of another entity, can we truthfully call them separate beings?
4890 Philip Pullman
One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
1286 Dmitri Mendeleev
It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.
1842 Avis J. Williams
respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing.
3833 Avis J. Williams
you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true
4613 Alberto Caeiro
If science wants to be truthful,
What science is more truthful than the science of things without science?
I close my eyes and the hard earth where I’m lying
Has a reality so real even my back feels it.
I don’t need reason - I have shoulderblades.
2790 Bryant McGill
Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.
1152 Fay Weldon
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
2347 Avis J. Williams
Let go of how you perceive others and how others perceive you.
3223 Avis J. Williams
The universe only exist within us. All of what is outside of us is also within us.
2967 Kedar Joshi
It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.
4051 Lionel Shriver
Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
2806 Amy Tan
All objects exist in a moment of time.
3348 Khalid Masood
There are no walls at the edge of the universe. Absence of time is the limit of space existence.
4402 Khalid Masood
Time is the element and prime cause of the universe and all existence.
1586 Michel Faber
What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.
2182 A.J. Darkholme
Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.
3153 Alberto Caeiro
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
3665 Alberto Caeiro
I’m in no hurry. What for?
The sun and moon aren’t in a hurry: they’re right.
Hurrying is believing people can get past their legs,
Or that, jumping, they can land past their shadow.
No; I don’t know how to hurry.
1556 F.J. Dagg
With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all.
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