Quotes about existence

"It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere."

Breton, Andre on existence   

"In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."

Camus, Albert on existence   

"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."

Cioran, E. M. on existence
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"To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being."

Cioran, E. M. on existence   

"Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence."

Dickens, Charles on existence   

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"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."

Dowell, Coleman on existence   

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve."

Fromm, Erich on existence
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"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."

Gourmont, Remy De on existence   

"The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself."

Hoffer, Eric on existence   

"Every life is its own excuse for being."

Hubbard, Elbert on existence   

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

Mccullers, Carson on existence   

"I don't exist when you don't see me."

Mercy, Sisters Of on existence   

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

Nabokov, Vladimir on existence
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on existence
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"We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life."

Renard, Jules on existence
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on existence
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"There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then."

Scott, Hazel on existence   

"Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future."

Sontag, Susan on existence   

"I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria."

Sting on existence   

"Being is the great explainer."

Thoreau, Henry David on existence
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

Updike, John on existence
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"I can, therefore I am."

Weil, Simone on existence   

"Anything and everything, physical or otherwise, is defined by its absence."

Parslow, Eric on existence   

"He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate."

King, Stephen on existence   

"The world is whole beyond human knowing. "

Berry, Wendell on existence   

"There must be something unique about me that God gave me the privilege to exist. "

Gil, Fausto on existence   

"There are only two corners on the ring of this world. One of them is myself, the other one, everybody else. "

Gil, Fausto on existence   

"There are only two corners on the ring of this world. One of them is you, the other one, everybody else. "

Gil, Fausto on existence   

"There must be something unique about you that God gave you the privilege to exist."

Gil, Fausto on existence   

"If one can be himself that is the greatest entreprise."

Tadj Abelkader on existence   

"IT IS NOT ENOUGH TO BE GOOD IT IS WISE TO BE WELL. "

Tadj Abelkader on existence   

"Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"Without nothing, everything would be nothing."

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"From everything, nothing looks to nothing."

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"From nothing comes everything."

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere."

Stojanovic, Dejan on existence   

"Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species."

Bonta, Vanna on existence   

"In the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman"

Camus, Albert on existence