Existence Quotes

• The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the I, under another form, continues the task of existence.

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Moments
  • Sleep
  • Impossible

• Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pain
  • Existence
  • Grief

• Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Books
  • Existence
  • Mushroom

• Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • God
  • Action
  • Mistake

• The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School.

  

  Webster Tarpley
  • School
  • Existence

• We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity--advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary.... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection-- and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings.

  

  Gary Paul Nabhan
  • Identity
  • Recognition
  • Competitors

• The decision in my case to become a stay-at-home dad, which people do all the time, I guess wouldn't have meant as much to people if I had had a very simple kind of make-a-living existence and decided I needed to spend more time at home.

  

  Rick Moranis
  • People
  • Existence
  • Become

• Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.

  

  Asvaghosa
  • Existence

• 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.

  

  William James
  • World
  • Clock
  • Metaphysics

• Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

  

  George William Foote
  • God
  • Existence
  • Atheist

• Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

  

  Michael Tippett
  • Thoughts
  • Existence
  • Danced

• Every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • History
  • Choice
  • Arrives

• For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Desire
  • Existence
  • Love Is

• Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

  

  Elizabeth Noble
  • Change
  • Pain
  • Childbirth

• No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Belief
  • Existence
  • Metaphysician

• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  

  Evita Peron
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• When the universe is ephemeral, one can easily feel that human existence is meaningless. Why should I do anything at all? On the other hand it is tempting to try and make the best of it. I'm here, anyway. The imagination won't cope if I try to picture where I'd otherwise be.

  

  Erlend Loe
  • Trying
  • Human
  • Tempting

• This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Human
  • Belief
  • Existence

• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Vision
  • Advantage
  • Ventures

• Power politics existed before Machiavelli was ever heard of; it will exist long after his name is only a faint memory. What he did, like Harvey, was to recognize its existence and subject it to scientific study.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Long
  • Science
  • Study

• An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

  

  Carl Mitcham
  • World
  • Science
  • Causes

• For, owners of their deeds (karma) are the beings, heirs of their deeds; their deeds are the womb from which they sprang; with their deeds they are bound up; their deeds are their refuge. Whatever deeds they do-good or evil-of such they will be the heirs. And wherever the beings spring into existence, there their deeds will ripen; and wherever their deeds ripen, there they will earn the fruits of those deeds, be it in this life, or be it in the next life, or be it in any other future life.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Spring
  • Deeds
  • Karma

• In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Existence

• All things proclaim the existence of God.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Existence
  • All Things

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