Quotes about existence

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

— Andre Breton

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

— Albert Camus

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

— E. M. Cioran

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.

— E. M. Cioran

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Coleman Dowell

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

— Erich Fromm

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.

— Remy De Gourmont

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

— Eric Hoffer

Every life is its own excuse for being.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Carson Mccullers

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

— Sisters Of Mercy

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

— Jules Renard

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.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

— Hazel Scott

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

— Susan Sontag

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

— Sting

Being is the great explainer.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— John Updike

I can, therefore I am.

— Simone Weil

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

— Eric Parslow

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.

— Stephen King

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

— Wendell Berry

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

— Fausto Gil

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

— Fausto Gil

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

— Fausto Gil

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

— Fausto Gil

If one can be himself that is the greatest entreprise.

— Tadj Abelkader

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

— Tadj Abelkader

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From everything, nothing looks to nothing.

— Dejan Stojanovic

From nothing comes everything.

— Dejan Stojanovic

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Vanna Bonta

In the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman

— Albert Camus

Our existence doesn't meanings, until we can’t feel the pain and sorrows of others

— Shah Ishtiaq (Real Scientist)

All I want to live in real for once, not just to exist.

— Mak Kazeronnie

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. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour).

— Vladimir Nabokov