Quotes about Existence

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. Votes: 6

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. Votes: 6

Nonexistence never hurt anyone. Existence hurts everyone. Votes: 5

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 5

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. Votes: 5

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Votes: 5

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Votes: 5

Existence is humiliation, anyway. Votes: 4

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art Votes: 4

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom. Votes: 4

Existence is tedious, anyway. Votes: 3

Existence is an imperfection. Votes: 3

Existence precedes and rules essence. Votes: 3

Existence begins in every instant. Votes: 3

Existence is prior to essence. Votes: 3

Existence is the awareness of awareness. Votes: 3

Existence without essence is very stressful. Votes: 3

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting. Votes: 3

Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification. Votes: 3

Existence of mankind, the glory of God. Votes: 3

Existence is illusory and it is eternal. Votes: 3

The real man is the one Unit Existence. Votes: 3

Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty. Votes: 3

Existence has billions of doors, but death has none! Votes: 3

Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci. Votes: 3

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. Votes: 3

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream Votes: 3

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work Votes: 3

Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us. Votes: 3

What makes Existence really nice Is Virtue--with a dash of Vice. Votes: 3

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle. Votes: 3

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way. Votes: 3

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves. Votes: 3

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning. Votes: 3

Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. Votes: 3

Existence for eternity could get a little boring... especially towards the end. Votes: 3

God is not a person, God is the underlying consciousness in Existence. Votes: 3

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement. Votes: 3

Existence is where the soul goes to learn how to interpret itself again. Votes: 3

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence. Votes: 3

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. Votes: 3

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Votes: 3

Well at ease are the Sleepers for whom Existence is a shallow Dream. Votes: 3

No man is poor in real terms, because every man owns a great treasure: Existence! Votes: 3

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Votes: 3

Life is existence with meaning Votes: 2

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence. Votes: 2

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Votes: 2

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence. Votes: 2

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. Votes: 2

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Votes: 2

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence. Votes: 2

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. Votes: 2

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Votes: 2

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Votes: 2

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. Votes: 2

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. Votes: 2

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. Votes: 2

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. Votes: 2

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. Votes: 2

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? Votes: 2

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man. Votes: 2

I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. Votes: 2

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. Votes: 2

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Votes: 2

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. Votes: 2

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time. Votes: 2

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. Votes: 2

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. Votes: 2

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part. Votes: 2

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Votes: 2

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. Votes: 2

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. Votes: 2

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Votes: 2

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. Votes: 2

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Votes: 2

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet. Votes: 2

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons. Votes: 2

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. Votes: 2

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on. Votes: 2

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. Votes: 2

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. Votes: 2

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. Votes: 2

Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone wolf patriot standing up to dystopic forces of oppression - a myth - and more in common with the disease known as cancer - a harsh reality. Votes: 2

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. Votes: 2

Nothing Is Unusual (NIU). Votes: 1

Speak success into existence. Votes: 1

Never doubt your existence. Votes: 1

We make our purpose. Votes: 1

I'm one of my sensations. Votes: 1

Bury me where I die. Votes: 1

Reality cannot breathe without imagination. Votes: 1

Love is divine force of existence. Votes: 1

Love brings you closer to yourself Votes: 1

Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is. Votes: 1

The unearthly arrogance of the nonexistence. Votes: 1

Maps codify the miracle of existence. Votes: 1

love starts a shake-upwithin whole existence Votes: 1

Passionate living is the joy of existence. Votes: 1

Boredom slays more of existence than war. Votes: 1

Exist outside but live and rest within... Votes: 1

Art is the refreshing source of existence. Votes: 1

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. Votes: 1

Physical existence is finite.- Sagar Gorijala. Votes: 1

The Structure is bigger than the concept. Votes: 1

One man's fantasy is another man's reality! Votes: 1

Your reality is a reflection of yourself Votes: 1

Exist with me. We'd do so beautifully. Votes: 1

Let's not hate the existence of hatred. Votes: 1

Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Votes: 1

Creation of mankind, the power of God. Votes: 1

Unless I speak, you won't see me. Votes: 1

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness Votes: 1

Tomorrow is like infinity,it doesn't really exist. Votes: 1

If God does not exist, everything is permitted. Votes: 1

Love makes you feel at home in existence. Votes: 1

It takes time, or does time take it? Votes: 1

All objects exist in a moment of time. Votes: 1

To conserve energy, her little planet stopped spinning. Votes: 1

Delusions are a vital part of my existence. Votes: 1

Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais. Votes: 1

did time exist before we could count it Votes: 1

The inner emptiness is the door to God. Votes: 1

Let your existence be enough for a moment. Votes: 1

Life is always speaking to us at every moment. Votes: 1

When I doubt that I exist, I pinch myself. Votes: 1

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. Votes: 1

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is. Votes: 1

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. Votes: 1

Universe doesn't even know that you exist, so relax! Votes: 1

What's the matter? What's the antimatter? Does it antimatter? Votes: 1

By the power of God, everything came into existence. Votes: 1

Live your life to fullness of your sacred existence. Votes: 1

Sameness of existence. Conformity is inevitable. So is search. Votes: 1

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me. Votes: 1

To be, or not to be: what a question! Votes: 1

Just existing is where a lot of living happens. Votes: 1

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full. Votes: 1

Everyting is as it should be. So am I. Votes: 1

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence. Votes: 1

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence. Votes: 1

Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed. Votes: 1

There was existence in oblivion; there is you in oblivion. Votes: 1

Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists. Votes: 1

Madness is only an amplification of what you already are. Votes: 1

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. Votes: 1

Come, sleep and death; you promise nothing, you hold everything. Votes: 1

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating. Votes: 1

I am not one and simple, but complex and many. Votes: 1

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax. Votes: 1

Is it all just a psychotic dream? What is life? Votes: 1

Who will read these poems when the people are gone? Votes: 1

We are all part of divinity. All mankind are divine. Votes: 1

You are the illusion. The person in the mirror is real. Votes: 1

Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence. Votes: 1

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. Votes: 1

This is the world, he thought. And I am in it. Votes: 1

Everything you wish to "create" is already there, waiting for you. Votes: 1

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. Votes: 1

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. Votes: 1

I don't question our existence. I just question our modern needs. Votes: 1

we came naked into the world and we will exit naked. Votes: 1

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. Votes: 1

The stars up there at night are closer than you think. Votes: 1

Extinction is established when people only choose to exist without living Votes: 1

It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you. Votes: 1

Your impact on others is the only proof of your existence Votes: 1

To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist. Votes: 1

Un beau sourire sans aucune raison est le sourire de l'existence. Votes: 1

Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist. Votes: 1

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing. Votes: 1

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. Votes: 1

The existence of things does not depend on the existence of words. Votes: 1

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists. Votes: 1

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all. Votes: 1

Let go of how you perceive others and how others perceive you. Votes: 1

What is the meaning of a cactus flower? It exists, that's all. Votes: 1

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence. Votes: 1

If you believe in existence, you will refuse to be a hero! Votes: 1

Many a petal has yet to fall before the last one falls. Votes: 1

It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty! Votes: 1

The greatest lie of the greatest evil is that it doesn't exist. Votes: 1

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful. Votes: 1

Happiness does not mean the absence of problems, but the existence of passion. Votes: 1

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life. Votes: 1

The mystery of existence is the connection between our wins and our losses. Votes: 1

Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful. Votes: 1

Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing. Votes: 1

IMPERCEPTIBLE IMPELLENTGod exists in the heart, not in the show of religious alignment Votes: 1

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship. Votes: 1

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain? Votes: 1

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely. Votes: 1

Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish. Votes: 1

I returned to my existence, the existence I had chosen instead of you. Votes: 1

Things are what they are, even when you don't know what they are. Votes: 1

On peut non seulement ce qu'on a, mais aussi ce que l'on est. Votes: 1

Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself. Votes: 1

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain. Votes: 1

you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true Votes: 1

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist. Votes: 1

Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth! Votes: 1

Pure wisdom is the 'fruit of life'; banal platitudes are the 'bane of existence'. Votes: 1

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. Votes: 1

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence. Votes: 1

There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream. Votes: 1

The human emotions are worthy of nothing when our existence has no realistic value. Votes: 1

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. Votes: 1

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you! Votes: 1

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime Votes: 1

Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation. Votes: 1

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. Votes: 1

There is nothing in this universe which is not in struggle to keep its existence! Votes: 1

It is in the little moments that we live the longest. Everything else is existence. Votes: 1

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition. Votes: 1

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. Votes: 1

Exit is a letter away from Exist.A part, just a space away from Apart. Votes: 1

Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being. Votes: 1

Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is. Votes: 1

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. Votes: 1

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained. Votes: 1

It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you. Votes: 1

The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness. Votes: 1

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor futurelessens . . . . Superabundant existencewells in my heart. Votes: 1

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones Votes: 1

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. Votes: 1

Atheism deprives superstition of its stand ground, and compels Theism to reason for its existence. Votes: 1

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. Votes: 1

We are musical notes emanating from the quantum string section of a grand symphonic orchestra. Votes: 1

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. Votes: 1

Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you. Votes: 1

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am Votes: 1

A spiritual man is happy with the whole existence. He says "yes" to the whole existence. Votes: 1

Distinction is the outcome of living, while extinction is the outcome of merely existing without living Votes: 1

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence. Votes: 1

People think that fun in Christ is non-existent, but there is fun wherever your heart lives. Votes: 1

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't. Votes: 1

The only thing I do not see atheists denying is the existence of heaven and hell. Votes: 1

I am not sure the God exists; but I have no doubt of the Goddess existence. Votes: 1

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. Votes: 1

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous? Votes: 1

If your existence does not make any difference, you are no more than a dead body. Votes: 1

If you are a finger, your honesty is the hand to make your existence worth living. Votes: 1

Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination Votes: 1

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all. Votes: 1

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. Votes: 1

When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists. Votes: 1

With no one to fear him, it seemed at times as if he didn't exist at all. Votes: 1

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist. Votes: 1

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought. Votes: 1

Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit. Votes: 1

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. Votes: 1

People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive. Votes: 1

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it. Votes: 1

Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist! Votes: 1

Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality. Votes: 1

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price. Votes: 1

Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is. Votes: 1

The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not. Votes: 1

The universe only exist within us. All of what is outside of us is also within us. Votes: 1

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker Votes: 1

Ideas are seeds of existence in absolute emptiness.Creative words are the building blocks of such ideas. Votes: 1

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift. Votes: 1

An answer gone unanswered will be answered in a parallel universe. Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions. Votes: 1

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world Votes: 1

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us! Votes: 1

You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence. Votes: 1

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo) Votes: 1

Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy! Votes: 1

That faceless, nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight, is nothing but the bastard in your head. Votes: 1

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence. Votes: 1

You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you. Votes: 1

At the end of time I want my art to stand up and my soul to bow down. Votes: 1

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow. Votes: 1

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ Votes: 1

Rest your mind for a moment in the peace of knowing you were created and you do exist. Votes: 1

We breathe in as existence, and breathe out as life. It is the heartbeat of the eternal moment. Votes: 1

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Votes: 1

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space. Votes: 1

Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths. Votes: 1

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't. Votes: 1

We did not determine our fate into the world. What we know is we are here in the world. Votes: 1

I'm always talking to God about whether or not he exists - that's how I know I'm a theist. Votes: 1

The only existence I know now is the one I was given. An echo of what used to be. Votes: 1

You can't be extinct if people aren't even aware you ever existed. I should know, because I don't know. Votes: 1

Conflict is a natural part of existence. Life is a struggle for survival for every organism at every level. Votes: 1

I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. Votes: 1

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity. Votes: 1

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe. Votes: 1

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence. Votes: 1

There are no walls at the edge of this universe...absence of gravity is the limit of space existence. Votes: 1

Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again. Votes: 1

Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in. Votes: 1

Co-exist whether you believe in Pistachios or Pasta, Poseidon or the Prophet cause Gods and Religions cannot exist without us. Votes: 1

Much of our existence is to deal with steep problems and slippery solutions; the rest is the celebration of life! Votes: 1

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out. Votes: 1

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. Votes: 1

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence. Votes: 1

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. Votes: 1

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. Votes: 1

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. Votes: 1

Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream. Votes: 1

Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger...these are the concerns that fill her days. Votes: 1

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility. Votes: 1

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born. Votes: 1

One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live. Votes: 1

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Votes: 1

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. Votes: 1

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up. Votes: 1

There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence. Votes: 1

The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them. Votes: 1

The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence. Votes: 1

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality. Votes: 1

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade away at all. Votes: 1

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. Votes: 1

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away. Votes: 1

... And I wondered if we had disappointed God so much, that he wrote us off as pets, just alive to entertain. Votes: 1

The day you find out the purpose of your existence, is the day you get to know the value of your being. Votes: 1

Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly! Votes: 1

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd. Votes: 1

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent. Votes: 1

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. Votes: 1

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. Votes: 1

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards. Votes: 1

The presence of ghosts is only as close as your belief.The existence of aliens is only as far as your rejection. Votes: 1

For those who were born lovers, falling in love is neither an option nor a decision. it is a matter of existence. Votes: 1

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. Votes: 1

Sooner or later everything that exists ceases to exist, and then something comes along to take its place, but not always something better. Votes: 1

Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void Votes: 1

I searched for a deeper existence. What I found was myself. The next moment the journey towards self discovery began all over again. Votes: 1

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start. Votes: 1

I am not the No Factory I yessed into existence. I love with an intensity that needs to be felt to be purred. Votes: 1

Question for your life: If the man of your dreams existed in two dimensions only, would you try to print duplicates of him? Votes: 1

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. Votes: 1

When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives. Votes: 1

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist. Votes: 1

The goings-on in Mind does not depend on what exist in reality. Rather, it depends on what you believe what exists in reality. Votes: 1

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. Votes: 1

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know. Votes: 1

I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte Votes: 1

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern. Votes: 1

Find your truth and make your existence real as you choose it. Your creation is your own greatest gift. (Neings of Light via Joules) Votes: 1

The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. Votes: 1

Fight for your existence and when doing this, try to be just to others! You have no job other than this in this universe! Votes: 1

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence. Votes: 1

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible. Votes: 1

If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe? Votes: 1

If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions. Votes: 1

No one is ever lost. No one needs to be saved. Open your inner eyes and see it all existing in harmony and love. Votes: 1

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself. Votes: 1

When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others. Votes: 1

...to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist. Votes: 1

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence. Votes: 1

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do. Votes: 1

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist? Votes: 1

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh... Votes: 1

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see. Votes: 1

What are you waiting for, you little mortal! You have no time! Get up and get out and do something to protect your miraculous existence! Votes: 1

Racism and violence were non-existent in this world, When people were aware to fight for identity'- Terzanelle for Octavia Estelle Butler, Poem by Marieta Maglas Votes: 1

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. Votes: 1

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. Votes: 1

The bad stuff that is part and parcel of contrived social existence takes a back seat when you concentrate on the heart of Life itself. Votes: 1

Here, fire turns into water;Here, the dancing of the rain declares the sun.There's no opposition in existence, no contradiction;Everything supports everything else. Votes: 1

If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist. Votes: 1

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love. Votes: 1

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Votes: 1

We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us. Votes: 1

Never despise the talents you have. It is by them that you will do something that has not yet come into existence until you were born. Votes: 1

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know. Votes: 1

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. Votes: 1

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not....Nor do I know that I know him not. Votes: 1

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. Votes: 1

Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt. Votes: 1

They were the flash of light in a stormy sky, the fleeting darkness before dawn. Never have they existed before, nor shall they ever exist again. Votes: 1

We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults. Votes: 1

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest. Votes: 1

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. Votes: 1

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given. Votes: 1

To all the true lovers: Your unconditional love is the reason why flowers bloom.To all the beloveds: You are the reason why universe came into existence. Votes: 1

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes. Votes: 1

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life? Votes: 1

Sure, black holes can kill us, and in a variety of interesting and gruesome ways. But, all in all, we may owe our very existence to them. Votes: 1

I wonder now if [the gods] take from us that which we love so we must seek them, if only to scavenge for meaning in this existence. Votes: 1

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining. Votes: 1

La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.") Votes: 1

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid. Votes: 1

there is a silent beauty hidden amongst pain, if you sit in it you may never find it; if you grow through it, You'll find the treasure. Votes: 1

To breathe,to breathe is nothing more than confirmation of the existence of your soulwhether you believe it or not,whether you live or cease to fight Votes: 1

Intuition is to develop a trust in yourself, and to the silent whisperings of your heart. If you trust yourself, you can trust others, you can trust existence. Votes: 1

It proposed that human beings, by the act of making witness, warranted times and places for their existence other than the time and place they were living through. Votes: 1

Humans are in love with the idea of our persisting,' he said. 'We fetishize it, really. Our retirement funds, our genealogies. Our so-called ideas for the ages. Votes: 1

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped. Votes: 1

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live. Votes: 1

You are the reality.The sense of of worship, love, devotion and loyalty.You are the purpose of life and existence. That is why I am still alive. Votes: 1

Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe. Votes: 1

What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward. Votes: 1

The truth of existence was a happiness separated from the easy happy life. There was music in the forest. There was clean air where nobody could hear him breathe. Votes: 1

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved. Votes: 1

If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others. Votes: 1

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. Votes: 1

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist. Votes: 1

Are decisions really products of analysis of a situation; or are simply out of preconceived notions? I believe, at some point of one's existence, we all are troubled by relativism! Votes: 1

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Votes: 1

In the course of our journey leading to Consciousness, our objective should not be creating a positive character, and thus a pleasant scenario, but finding the Existence behind every scenario. Votes: 1

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen. Votes: 1

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others. Votes: 1

No.. You have wonYou can never loseI won't let you loseYou are destined to winYou are destined to live in prosperity ..and to tell you.. You have won my existence!! Votes: 1

You're born thinking you're the centre of things, and they chip away at that until you expire muttering If I knew then, or some nonsense in an empty rooming house. Votes: 1

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. Votes: 1

He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us. Votes: 1

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement. Votes: 1

Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves. Votes: 1

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. Votes: 1

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. Votes: 1

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists. Votes: 1

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. Votes: 1

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis. Votes: 1

It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now, Votes: 1

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence. Votes: 1

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid. Votes: 1

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks. Votes: 1

You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents. Votes: 1

Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards Votes: 1

A truly honorable person, would never convince another to stray, from their personal pursuit of honor. No, only one lacking this noble quality would try to justify and market, an existence without it. Votes: 1

Artiku tidak bergantung dari kehadiranku, tetapi pada cintaku dan cinta yang diberikan kepadaku yang tak akan pernah tak hadir. Karenanya, sekali aku menyalakan rumah ini, nyala itu akan tetap tak akan pernah padam. Votes: 1

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. Votes: 1

At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities? Votes: 1

He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead. Votes: 1

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after. Votes: 1

Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! Votes: 1

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer. Votes: 1

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself. Votes: 1

The bright side of the planet moves toward darknessAnd the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour,And for me, now as then, it is too much.There is too much world. Votes: 1

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams Votes: 1

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it. Votes: 1

Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die. Votes: 1

Writing a story about a place calls that world into existence. Sometimes, as the author, you accompany it for a while. But even as you write, the characters have minds of their own. Votes: 1

The only time "early bloomer" has ever been applied to me is vis-a-vis my premature apprehension of the deep dread-of-existence thing. In all other cases, I plod and tromp along. My knuckles? Well dragged. Votes: 1

To be a great achiever, you must first discover your main purpose of existing through feasible communication mode with your maker, the source of your destiny. This brings you a conviction to work with. Votes: 1

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. Votes: 1

...although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence. Votes: 1

My coming brought no profit to the sky,Nor does my going swell its glory;My two ears have never heard anyone that could say,Why I came here and why I will go away. Votes: 1

respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start to express your emotions to others, this is essential to a healthy wellbeing. Votes: 1

The existence of conscious minds and their access to the evident truth of ethics and methematics are among the data that a theory of the world and our place in it has yet to explain. Votes: 1

I do not want chemistry to degenerate into a religion; I do not want the chemist to believe in the existence of atoms as the Christian believes in the existence of Christ in the communion wafer. Votes: 1

without the power to concentrate thatis to say, without the power to dictate to the brain its task and to ensure obedience true life is impossible. Mind control is the first element of a full existence. Votes: 1

Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is. Votes: 1

Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence. Votes: 1

He's a real nowhere man,Sitting in his Nowhere Land,Making all his nowhere plansfor nobody.Doesn't have a point of view,Knows not where he's going to,Isn't he a bit like you and me? Votes: 1

Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously. Votes: 1

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail. Votes: 1

Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever. Votes: 1

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going? Votes: 1

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time. Votes: 1

Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too,just once. And never again. But to have beenthis once, completely, even if only once:to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing. Votes: 1

If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real. Votes: 1

The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence. Votes: 1

Hiding my half existence behind the opaque walls of my skull, concealing it like a shameful disease, I did not consider the simple fact that the same thing could be occurring under other skullcaps, in other locked rooms. Votes: 1

In the beginning there was a fruit stand. The fruit of life on one side, and the fruit of intelligence on the other. While most chose life, humanity chose intelligence, and became the dominate species on this planet. Votes: 1

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it. Votes: 1

When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so. Votes: 1

If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything. Votes: 1

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life. Votes: 1

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Votes: 1

Since then, he watched the man live his completely stifling life over and over again, one repetitive day at a time. It was so consistent that Roen even complained about the same things at the same times every day. Votes: 1

People and things would continue to exist in a world where I did not, and no one would ever think of me. And, if that was the case, then what was the point of existing in the first place? Votes: 1

You matter.You are important.There is a reason for your existence.You may not see or understand how this is true, but truth doesn't cease to be truth because of doubt, blindness, or ignorance. And the truth i Votes: 1

It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist. Votes: 1

Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection? Votes: 1

It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ. Votes: 1

To be ignorant of the future is a condition of mortal existence, with which one can make terms. To be ignorant of the present, where it concerns the life of those one loves, is an additional burden almost beyond endurance. Votes: 1

I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering. Votes: 1

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term viable solution to attaining strength. Votes: 1

When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules. Votes: 1

Maybe the question isn't whether God exists, but how we act. If we all act like God doesn't exist, then for all intents and purposes God doesn't. But if we act like God does exist, then in essence, She does. Votes: 1

If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos! Votes: 1

Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a rush of air.And everything conspires to keep quiet about us,half out of shame perhaps, half out of some secret hope. Votes: 1

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. Votes: 1

Sorrow is a sanctuary as long as self is kept outside. [...] let us not foster, embrace, rekindle and indulge our grief. For then our sorrow is a selfish and luxurious fiction, a ground in which the Holy Spirit will not dig. Votes: 1

... but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be sickened by an illness known as you. Votes: 1

The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good. Votes: 1

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises! Votes: 1

We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous. Votes: 1

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. Votes: 1

Before you were born, and were still too tiny for the human eye to see, you won the race for life from among 250 million competitors. And yet, how fast you have forgotten your strength, when your very existence is proof of your greatness. Votes: 1

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks Votes: 1

For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it , it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers...This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me Votes: 1

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny. Votes: 1

What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for you own life, do you ever really exist at all? Votes: 1

What happens when you don't know the truth but you can't believe the lies, when you can't find a way--through fact or fiction--to give meaning to your own existence? Without a narrative for your own life, do you ever really exist at all? Votes: 1

The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His back hurt and he could hear darkness breathing audibly. Votes: 1

How the human system is happening, in the same way the universe has happened. In the same way that the micro is happening, that is how the macro has happened. If you look at the micro and perceive it, you will also know existence. Votes: 1

We are the oneness in love, joy and happy. We share this moment in time to experience the fullest and expansion of all our existence to collapse and be redefine into the truth of who and what we are and always will be. ~jh Votes: 1

For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of their room, a window seat, a strip of floor which they pace up and down. Votes: 1

And for the rest of her life, the girl, the woman, she never made a mark on anyone either that proved anything absolutely for certain, that she could ever see, about what she had done at any time, and this does not break her heart."Cloud Votes: 1

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger! Votes: 1

It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist. Votes: 1

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is. Votes: 1

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. Votes: 1

What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave at least songs. Votes: 1

Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away? Votes: 1