Existence quotes
626 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being"
"The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not."
"Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence."
"All the time I feel I must justify my existence."
"The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence."
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"The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself."
"All existence is a manifestation of God."
"God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it."
"I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself"
"It's coexistence or no existence."
"Celebrate your existence!"
"Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence."
"There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences."
"A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence."
"At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts."
"The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth."
"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
"Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence."
"Nepotism is the bedrock of social existence."
"Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling."
"Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you."
"There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence."
"You are the only person in existence who can use your potential. It is an awesome responsibility."
"Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence."
"I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to."
