Existence Quotes

I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from the living earth. We are Earth. What we do to Earth, we do to our self.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

The human being is constantly torn from calm and peace of simple existence by two things; wanting what you don't have, or disliking what you have.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence.

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

We create the possibility for a better human form in our next life if during our jamaloca existence after death, when we still have an astral body, we can have memories connected with music.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.

Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.

I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.