Quotes and Sayings About Existence
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares -
The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.
-- Adyashanti -
If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
-- African Spir -
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; ... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.
-- Alan Alda -
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
-- Alan Lowenthal -
This-the immediate, everyday, and present experience-is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
-- Alan Watts -
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
-- Albert Camus -
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
-- Albert Einstein -
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
-- Alexander Herzen -
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.
-- Amit Goswami -
It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
-- Andre Breton -
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
-- Andre Weil -
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
-- Angela Davis -
We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.
-- Anis Mojgani -
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
-- Anita Borg -
Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?
-- Anna Katharine Green -
I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
-- Antonin Artaud -
What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?
-- Antony Flew -
But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.
-- Apuleius -
If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.
-- Aristotle -
We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
