Existed Quotes
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Oscar Wilde -
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.
Albert Einstein
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Aristotle -
I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!
Jane Austen -
The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Iris Chang -
If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
R. C. Sproul -
Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.
Eric Holder -
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
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I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?
Haruki Murakami -
The striking thing that we're finding is the consistency of the gap over time. The same gaps exist that existed during the last five years.
John Curtin -
America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.
Oscar Wilde -
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.
Hannah Arendt -
Geometry existed before creation.
Plato -
Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.
Johannes Kepler
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
William Faulkner -
It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.
Baruch Spinoza -
I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.
Abbi Glines -
The role played by education in all political utopias from ancient times onward shows how natural it seems to start a new world with those who are by birth and nature new. So far as politics is concerned, this involves of course a serious misconception: instead of joining with one's equals in assuming the effort of persuasion and running the risk of failure, there is dictatorial intervention, based upon the absolute superiority of the adult, and the attempt to produce the new as a fait accompli, that is, as though the new already existed.
Hannah Arendt -
The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.
Walter Kasper -
Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis.
Sigmund Freud -
No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.
Honore de Balzac -
Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed.
John Lennon The Beatles