Top 100 Exist Existence Quotes
#1. Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.
Doug Cooper
#2. LOVE Is The Key Element To The Existence Of Humanity!
With It ... Mankind Will Exist For Eternity.
Without It ... Mankind Will Cease To Exist!
Timothy Pina
#3. I found that for me, the bottom line was that God was creation itself. I was praying to whatever caused things to exist. I thought that it also inhabited those things. For me, God was both the prerequisite for existence and its animating, incarnating element.
Margaret D. McGee
#4. Some live for their own joy and pleasure.
Some live to ease the burdens of others.
Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher
Richelle E. Goodrich
#5. For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
Gabriel Faure
#6. We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
Emil Cioran
#7. While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#9. Hopeful visions touch possibilities that only exist in the gaze of the faithful.
Bryant McGill
#10. God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him.
Paul Tillich
#11. 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.
Frank Herbert
#12. People don't exist without the past, I know. But the past isn't alive. It's you who's alive.
SHOOWA
#13. 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.
Jeanette Winterson
#14. Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.
Eoin Colfer
#15. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. The natural laws of life is not an idea but the truth that holds life on existence. Once you realize the truth within, all your problems and queries of life, cease to exist.
Roshan Sharma
#17. Exit is a letter away from Exist.
A part, just a space away from Apart.
Noor Iskandar
#18. She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
Sylvia Plath
#19. Endless moons, an opaque universe, thunder, tornadoes, the quaking earth. Rare moments of peace; forehead up against my knees, arms around my head, I though, I listened, I longed not to exist. but life was there, a transparent pearl, a star revolving slowly on its own axis.
Shan Sa
#20. 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.
#21. Before beginning this treatise, he wanted the advice of The Baboon, his philosophy prof. "Excuse me, sir," he said at the end of a class, "could anyone claim that we don't exist?" The Baboon said no. "Goghito," he said, "ergo zum. You exist because you doubt your existence.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. Instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence?
H.G.Wells
#23. The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
Said Nursi
#24. The belief that objective good and evil do not exist (relativism) is in conflict (rivalry) with a rejection of God based on the existence of objective evil.
Gregory Koukl
#25. In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.
Shekhar Kapur
#26. Wittgenstein once said: the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?
Tony Hendra
#27. Involuntary organizations ought to be tolerant, but voluntary organizations, so far as the fundamental purpose of their existence is concerned, must be intolerant or else cease to exist.
J. Gresham Machen
#28. 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.
Jacob Bronowski
#29. 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.
Fernando Pessoa
#30. Your soul is like a drop of water yearning to return to the ocean. There it will cease to exist as an individual and instead become a greater existence. It becomes an entire ocean.
Douglas James Cottrell
#31. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. All objects exist in a moment of time.
Amy Tan
#33. Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to.
...
Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
Stanislaw Lem
#34. Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#35. It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your performance and survival-you do not exist. It is hard to imitate a people whose existence appears, mainly, to be made tolerable by their bottomless gratitude that they are not, thank heaven, you.
James A. Baldwin
#36. This book of our existence is everything that has ever happened to everyone in every universe. All the pages exist at once even though you are reading them one at a time. When you finish a page and turn your consciousness to another page, the previous page remains.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#37. Poverty would always exist when we allow injustices to speak.
Henry Johnson Jr
#38. Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only these universes that are compatible without existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense, the lords of creation.
Stephen Hawking
#39. Who am I, anyway? Does one exist, or to what extent does one exist as an individual without friends, family, anybody to whom one can relate, to whom one's existence is of the least importance?
Patricia Highsmith
#40. 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.
James Jones
#41. Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#42. A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
Judith Butler
#43. Secular folks have no opinion about God's existence; they're busy with other matters. But a secular mystic would say, "The question is not 'Does God exist?' It's rather, 'What do we mean by 'God?
Victoria Zackheim
#44. The promise of celebrity is a transcendental human state of existence. It's not real. We do know the fact that celebrities as mortal beings exist and if you are looking for love by being famous or being around the famous - ultimately that goes away.
George Hickenlooper
#45. One is reminded of Primo Levi's observation about the Holocaust: 'Things whose existence is not morally comprehensible cannot exist.
Michael Barnett
#46. For you to exist on earth, downplay on the religious factor.
Sunday Adelaja
#47. Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?
Neal Shusterman
#48. Before creation I alone was, there was no other existence of the nature of cause and effect different from Me. After the creative cycle ends also, I alone exist. For, this universe is also Myself, and when everything is dissolved in its cause in Pralaya, what remains is only Myself.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#49. (those who do not exist cannot regret their non-existence,
Mary Beard
#50. There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!
C.S. Lewis
#51. A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#52. To be fulfilled and happy it is enough simply to exist.
Marty Rubin
#54. Perfect doesn't exist for people like us, Bartholomew. Passable. That's what I want. Just simply passable. If I could have a passable existence, I think I'd be very grateful.
Matthew Quick
#56. Time Dreams. They are memories of the soul. They encompass all Time. They exist in the space of a dream.
Tom Stafford
#57. 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!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel De Unamuno
#59. 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.
Peter Kreeft
#60. Lucien thought with bitter pleasure that his parents found him looking fine. "I don't exist." He closed his eyes and let himself drift: existence is an illusion because I know I don t exist, all I have to do is plug my ears and not think about anything and I'll become nothingness.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#61. It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.
H.P. Lovecraft
#62. 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
#63. An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.
C.S. Lewis
#64. The universe is the way it is , whether we like
it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent
of our desires . A world without God or purpose may seem harsh
or pointless, but that alone doesn ' t require God to actually exist.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#65. Did time exist before we could count it
E.webb
#66. There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.
Jenny Han
#67. Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?
Thomas Hardy
#68. It is often said that the divided condition of Christendom is an evil, and so it is. But the evil consists in the existence of the errors which cause the divisions and not at all in the recognition of those errors when once they exist.
J. Gresham Machen
#69. It's not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it's that blue-collar philosophy shouldn't exist in the first place. The ultimate question is not the justification of ones existence when your belly screams for sustenance? People are hungry god damn it!
Mick Lexington
#70. Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.
Norman Cousins
#71. Mere duration of existence doesn't make that existence meaningful. If man and the universe could exist forever, but if there were no God, their existence would still have no ultimate significance.
William Lane Craig
#72. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.
J.K. Rowling
#73. Why are you so sure parallel lines exist? Believe nothing, merely because you have been told it, or because it is traditional, or because you have imagined it.
Gautama Buddha
#74. I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#75. Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist,
John Barth
#76. For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next ... They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.
Augustine Of Hippo
#77. Get out of your own way. Learn to exist gracefully and peacefully with yourself.
Bryant McGill
#78. Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man ...
Jean-Paul Sartre
#79. The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.
Carl Jung
#80. The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
Peter Kreeft
#81. He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
Augustine Of Hippo
#82. Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain.
John Corey Whaley
#83. If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
Ayn Rand
#84. Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.
Blaise Pascal
#85. Gay life in 1970 was very bleak, compartmentalized. You didn't take it to work. You had to really lead a double life. There were bars, but you sort of snuck in and snuck out. Activism and gay pride simply didn't exist. I don't even think the word 'gay' was in existence.
Larry Kramer
#86. Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.
Kedar Joshi
#87. We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than 'exist'.
Fennel Hudson
#88. Bureaucracies, I've suggested, are not themselves forms of stupidity so much as they are ways of organizing stupidity
of managing relationships that are already characterized by extremely unequal structures of imagination, which exist because of the existence of structural violence.
David Graeber
#89. The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
Rabindranath Tagore
#90. I find it hard to believe that so many people doubt the existence of God. I mean, seriously, I'm here, so is it such a stretch to imagine that another all-powerful being could exist somewhere in the universe?
Zach Braff
#92. Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.
Leon Bloy
#94. Astrobiologists now believe that the existence of life throughout the universe requires: 1. a source of energy; 2. a type of atom that allows complex structures to exist; 3. a liquid solvent in which molecules can float and interact; and 4. sufficient time for life to arise and to evolve.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#95. I'm always going to be with you, you know. As long as you remember me, I will exist. Memory is a form of existence, life after death.
Andrea Speed
#97. Everybody is always touting the division between religion and science ... That division is based on a false premise. It simply doesn't exist. The first sciences developed from a desire to prove the existence of God. In that sense, science and religion have been hand in hand from the very beginning.
A.J. Kazinski
#98. When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist ...
Hugo Pratt
#99. You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you.
Jose Luis Ruiz
#100. You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist.
Neale Donald Walsch
