Existence Quotes

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there’s a sentence written especially for us.

~ Pietro Citati

If I have learned one thing in the years of my existence, one nugget of wisdom from having lived in the midst of disputations over faith and the nature of the world, it is that everything ends. This is both the blessing and the punishment of God upon the foolish tribe that calls itself man. We can embrace the end or we can weep, but the ghost of time closes all doors with a finality that can never be gainsaid.

~ Kamran Pasha

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.

~ Chris Hollenback

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Youth ends when egotism does, maturity begins when one lives for others.

~ Hermann Hesse

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.

~ Paul Murray

Do not say the land ahead does not exist, simply because you cannot see it.

~ Robert H. Barlow

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.

~ Franz Kafka

It is astonishing to realize that growing up actually means to become one with Existence. It means to find the whole Existence within myself, it means to discover that Existence is alive in my own heart and being. The song of a bird echoes my own inner voice, the beauty of a flower reflects my own inner beauty, a dog becomes an expression of my own unconditional love and friendship, the majestic mountains create an exstatic joy, and I discover all the shining stars of the sky within my own heart. It is to realize that the whole Existence is alive, and that the underlying thread of consciousness is God.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

The way he’s watching me makes me feel needed like no one’s ever been able to make me feel. In a way, he makes me feel necessary. Like my existence alone is necessary for his survival.

~ Colleen Hoover

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 ignor

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What is reasonable is real, that which is real is reasonable.

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Back therefore we find ourselves returning. Back to the wisdom of the plough; back to the wisdom of those who follow the sea. It is all a matter of the wheel coming full-circle. For the sophisticated system of mental reactions to which we finally give our adherence is only the intellectualised reproduction of what more happily constituted natures, without knowing what they possess, possess. Thus between true philosophers and the true simple people there is a magnetic understanding; whereas, the clever ones whose bastard culture only divorces them from the wisdom of the earth remain pilloried and paralysed on the prongs of their own conceit.

~ John Cowper Powys

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

~ Sylvia Plath

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

~ Ken Kesey

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?

~ Mo Yan

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

~ Neil Gaiman

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.

~ Primo Levi

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

~ Eoin Colfer

I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

~ Stephen Crane

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

~ Tom Robbins

AGE DIFFERENCEWhat if I told you that one day you will meet a girl who is unlike anyone else you've known. She will know all the right things to say, what makes you laugh, what turns you on, what drives you wild and best of all, you will do for her exactly what she does for you.When will I meet her?Well let's put it this way, she doesn't even exist yet.

~ Lang Leav

It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unawares.

~ Marilynne Robinson

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

~ Melina Marchetta

I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness.Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

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

~ Charles Bukowski

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

~ Sholem Asch

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

~ Brian Greene

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

~ Jostein Gaarder

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

~ Jostein Gaarder

The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

~ Philip K. Dick

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.

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

...I take as a point of departure the possibility and desirability of a fundamentally different form of society--call it communism, if you will--in which men and women, freed from the pressures of scarcity and from the insecurity of everyday existence under capitalism, shape their own lives. Collectively they decide who, how, when, and what shall be produced.

~ Michael Burawoy

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.

~ Kedar Joshi

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

~ Julianne Davidow

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

~ Kim Edwards

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

~ Saint Frances De Sales

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

~ Stanisław Lem