Exist Quotes
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
I taught them how precisely to explode and still exist.
Blake Butler
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Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere.
Edmund Morris -
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.
Ananda Coomaraswamy -
Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist.
Archie Fire Lame Deer -
There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.
Scarlett Johansson -
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
Thomas Carlyle -
To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other...when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
Simone de Beauvoir
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As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
Eugene McCarthy -
Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
Immanuel Kant -
Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle.
Ellen MacArthur -
Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.
Alois Podhajsky
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Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.
Edwin A. Abbott -
The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.
Brad Warner -
The vitrines exist so that you can see objects, but not touch them: they frame things, suspend them, tantalise through distance.
Edmund de Waal -
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.
Candace Pert -
Every big adventure should feel like your last. Every attempt should feel like a final charge up the hill. Tomorrow doesn't exist.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
Ernest Bramah -
If you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
Esmeralda Santiago -
I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I couldn’t tell the doctor what I had done to cut myself—I didn’t have any memory of it. The ER doctor was convinced that dissociative identity disorder didn’t exist. . . . A lot of people involved in mental health tell you it doesn’t exist. Not that you don’t have it, but that it doesn’t exist.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
William Faulkner