What Is Existence Quotes
The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.
My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.
I can't go white, Indian, Asian, Latin. For me, in my existence, if I'm anything, I'm inclusive of everyone, and we are just one, and I hope that global harmony is in all of us.
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.
No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
As Latinos, we are so aware of what people go through in order to come to America. It's very interesting to do research on something that's been culturally a part of your existence.
One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.
Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence of a person, somebody remembers.
When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.
Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!
It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now,
To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it . . .The fact always precedes the faith.
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!
The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.
Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.
I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have.
The question of being is the darkest in all philosophy.
For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?
This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.
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.
All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.
We didn't make ourselves, " she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.