What Is Existence Quotes

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

I was a kid who lived to read. It was the primary pleasure of my existence. It's still one of the primary pleasures of my existence. It's where I draw my sustenance.

Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

Mystery is the soul of existence.

God created the world to be praised on the subtle nature of his existence.

I know what the world exists for, but I know not how it came into existence. I see the design, but not the designer. I understand the question, but not the questioner.

Without art, we're handicapped, and living a stifled, barren existence.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

Prove beyond reasonable doubt that the process of evolution (option 3 above, under known options) is the only possible way the observed phenomena could have come into existence.

Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign.

Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.

Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?

Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.

. . . the integral being is attached to nothing and can relate to everyone with an unstructured attitude. Because of this, her very existence benefits all things.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.

Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is the stuff of all existence.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

Henry James joyously engaged in the act of writing. A good day's writing gave him a sense of strength, of control over chaos, a victory of order and clarity over the confused battle of existence.

We owe our existence to our parents, but we actually didn't have a choice.

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.

And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

There is no denying that there are 'royal roads' through existence for the upper classes; for them, at least, the highways are macadamized, swept, and watered.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

Our life is two fold Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence Sleep hath its own world, And a wide realm of wild reality.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

The possibilities of existence run so deeply into the extravagant that there is scarcely any conception too extraordinary for Nature to realise.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion.

women have no existence except in love; the history of their life begins and ends with love!

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service.

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?