Existence Quotes

The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen ...

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moro...

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo)

Today we take for granted that we are we. Yet the doubt about ourselves still exists, or has even gr...

Man is gifted with reason; he is life being aware of itself; he has awareness of himself, of his fel...

What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit mor...

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philos...

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his...

There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I fe...

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or real...

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obvio...

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or th...

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

The good life is that which succeeds in existing for the moment, without reference to past or future...

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

The key to the scientist's purpose is the idea that every phenomenon is the product of a certain giv...

...To trust in the strength of God in our weakness; to say, ‘I am weak: so let me be: God is strong;...

What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolat...

At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless ex...

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple ...

I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal...

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of exist...

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. A...

It is cognition that is the fantasy.... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and re...

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. It...

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to los...

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no...

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know w...

If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to p...

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating...

One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no on...

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothin...

The West Indian is not exactly hostile to change, but he is not much inclined to believe in it. This...

Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.

I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being. At every waking momen...

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life...

I have spent these last two days in concentrated introspection," said Cutie, "and the results have b...

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficul...

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only ...

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But yo...

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a...

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong ...

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress ...

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at th...

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue...

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figur...

All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a ...

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is the...

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed...

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if ...

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, enc...

I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go ...

I feel my hand. I am these two beasts struggling at the end of my arms. My hand scratches one of its...

Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?....

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am ...

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must ent...

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted s...

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate f...

A solemn sadness reigns. A great peace is around us. In its light our cares of the working day grow ...

The truest treasure is a soul who believes in its own existence

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you.

Religion is the sense of comprehension of the totality of existence.

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself, because the self ...

Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them.

I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain...

I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain an...

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of ...

I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in ...

Perhaps it's true that all men love their fathers, no matter how terrible the things they do to thei...

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.

Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy lookin...

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no ...

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the De...

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing thei...

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existenc...

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be ...

And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, ...

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

There are things we do automatically, our body, acting on its own, avoids inconvenience whenever pos...

Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds hi...

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or ju...

I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species w...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...