Top 100 Never Existed Quotes
#1. There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
Robert Kennedy
#2. The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#3. Syme had ceased to exist: he had never existed.
George Orwell
#4. You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Rita Dove
#5. But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?
Nicole Krauss
#6. Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
Gloria Steinem
#7. 'The Godfather' was the glorification of a bunch of bums who never existed.
Orson Welles
#8. The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed - and never will
Martin Wolf
#10. I thought he had to look for what he was looking for, and realize it no longer existed, or never existed. p. 233
Jonathan Safran Foer
#12. Somehow, the person who never existed haunts me, worse than the rest of my ghosts.
Victoria Aveyard
#13. I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!
Brooke Shields
#14. We've all been influenced by other people ... If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.
Mariah Carey
#15. We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#16. Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.
Burt Rutan
#17. That was how history worked, wasn't it? If it wasn't written down it never existed. You might leave behind jewelry and pottery, ornamental tombs, you might leave behind your own bones to be dug up at a later age, but none of those artifacts could express how you felt.
Kate Atkinson
#18. For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.
Washington Irving
#19. There's no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don't have memories, it's like you never existed. You can't leave anything behind. I mean - how can I defend humanity? It's all that matters. Why would you throw that away?
Maggie Stiefvater
#20. Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At the moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.
Philip Pullman
#21. Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.
Theodore Von Karman
#22. We among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.
Lev Grossman
#23. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.
Philip Pullman
#24. There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#25. When the Past Never Existed
Then There Was No Life.
Petra Hermans
#26. How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.
Auberon Herbert
#27. Silence equals nonexistence. If I don't raise my voice, it's like I never existed.
Margaret Cho
#28. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.
Celeste Ng
#29. I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Arthur Wellesley
#30. If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
Paul Halmos
#31. You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?
Taylor Nadeau
#32. If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.
Felix Wantang
#33. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.
Ayn Rand
#34. Europe has never existed. One must genuinely create Europe.
Jean Monnet
#35. Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.
Paola Antonelli
#36. I was a dreamseller, a medium through which my loved ones could project what they wanted to believe, what they dared to dream - that I would be well. I sold them a dream, something that never existed in the first place, their own idealistic vision of me.
Brandon Novak
#37. In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#38. But I know the rage that drives you. That impossible anger strangling the grief, until the memory of your loved ones is just poison in your veins. And one day you catch yourself wishing the person you loved had never existed, so you'd be spared your pain.
Christopher Nolan
#39. Goodness is a triumph. And so it is / with love. Love is not the part / we are born with that flowers / a little and then wanes as we /
grow up. We cobble love together / from this and those of our machinery / until there is suddenly an apparition / that never existed before.
Jack Gilbert
#40. Time never existed, time will never exist, for time is existing
Stephan Attia
#41. I would not just disappear into a void as though I'd never existed. I would not accept that I was less than these people just because they'd designed me that way.
S.J. Kincaid
#42. Maybe the Sea of Flames never existed at all, maybe curses aren't real, maybe her father is right: Earth is all magma and continental crust and ocean. Gravity and time. Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad
Anthony Doerr
#43. I don't defend the idea of universal love. It has never existed and will never exist.
Jose Saramago
#44. If no one remembers you, you never existed.
Lain
#45. Blind obedience was never what I wanted. Yet, you seem determined to keep us in the past, where every act, every response, is either black or white, when you know damned good and well our lives never existed on such a plane.
Lora Leigh
#46. That's because you are nobody, he reminded himself harshly. You're nothing to him. If you disappeared today, he'd probably never even remember you were here. You'd be forgotten again in seconds, as if you never existed
Santino Hassell
#47. There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
Golda Meir
#48. I promise that this will be the last time you'll see me. I won't come back. I won't put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed.
Stephenie Meyer
#49. These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.
Ray Bradbury
#50. No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed. I
Rabih Alameddine
#51. Finding such a person makes everyone else appear so ordinary ... and if anything happens to him, you've got nothing left but to return to the ordinary world, and a kind of isolation that never existed before.
Alan Turing
#52. The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel Brooks
#53. There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.
Irving Stone
#54. I wish I could hold the play (Romeo and Juliet) in my hands right now. I want to read it. I want to know that someone else has felt what I feel, even if that person never existed outside one man's imagination.
Kitty Thomas
#55. I never existed at all. Heavenly fire burns away that which is evil. Jace survived Glorious because he is good. There was enough of him left to lie. But I was born to be all corruption. There is not enough left of me to survive. You see the ghost of someone who could have been, that is all.
Cassandra Clare
#56. With him I couldn't be anything but myself and that scared the crap out of me, because I had never existed like that before.
Carlyle Labuschagne
#57. Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.
Jim Rowe
#58. To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.
Marie Bashkirtseff
#59. I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.
Delano Johnson
#60. If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?
Virginia Woolf
#61. It's almost like while you are working for the WWF everything is fine and good, but if you are no longer employed by them they want you to just drop off the face of the earth and it's like you never existed.
Jerry Lawler
#62. Cruise through the gargantuan sites - YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo! - and it's as though modernism never existed. Twentieth-century print design never existed. European and Japanese design never existed. The Web's aesthetic might be called late-stage Atlantic City or early-stage Mall of America.
Virginia Heffernan
#63. But in order to really see it, the truth, I have to admit how much I'm hated. And who wants to think they're worthy of that much anger? To be despised so much... to have someone wish you never existed. ~ Emma
Rebecca Donovan
#64. As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.
Clara Shih
#65. External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.
Marlen Haushofer
#66. It's amazing how friends can slip through your fingers, how your social network can vanish like it never existed.
Liane Moriarty
#67. Build roads never seen before. Build bridges never existed before. Build a society never lived before. It is all in your hands now.
Abhijit Naskar
#68. If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.
Ayn Rand
#70. You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of women, they do not understand women, they write about women as creatures that never existed,
Dylan Thomas
#71. They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,
and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.
Woodrow Wilson
#72. I have no right to be sad about anything. No right to have therapy from expensive doctors like you for losing children who never existed. There is real grief in the world. There are real mothers losing real children.
Liane Moriarty
#73. I would still invade Iraq even if Iraq never existed
George W. Bush
#74. You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed ... It's magnificent.
Derek Landy
#75. The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Iris Chang
#76. History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
...
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in line.
Wislawa Szymborska
#77. The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon.
Malala Yousafzai
#78. The blood of Jesus did not merely "cover" the sins of your wicked heart ... leaving a stain! It completely remove them all wiping them out as if they never existed there in the first place! It's called redemption!
John Paul Warren
#79. I am, I believe, a young man on whom a grand joke is being played, fated to live one century, perhaps a second, perhaps a third, only to be scrubbed and rescrubbed from the record, to exit, if I ever do, as if I'd never existed at all.
Daniel Kraus
#80. We were born from their dreams, their fears and imaginations. We are the product of their hearts and minds. Without a soul we are immortal, yet empty. Remembered, we exist. Forgotten, we die. And when we die, we simply fade away, as if we never existed at all.
Julie Kagawa
#81. You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed.
Robyn Schneider
#82. These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. It's kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years.
Stockard Channing
#83. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
#84. If God was able to create [from nothing] that which had never existed, He can certainly recreate that which had already existed.
Hayim H. Donin
#85. Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.
Carol Leifer
#86. A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed.
Dieter Appelt
#87. But more often than not the missing face has been sucked into the engines of the Nazi death machine, like an unlucky lapwing hitting the propeller of a Lancaster bomber-nothing left but feathers blowing away in the aircraft's wake, as if those warm wings and beating heart had never existed.
Elizabeth Wein
#88. Nostalgia is predicated on something that never existed.
Kate Atkinson
#89. Somethin' about you, sugar, it's makin' everything I believe in feel like it never existed.
Bella Jewel
#90. Is it murder to kill a man if the man never existed? To the man it is.
Johnny Rich
#91. Novels teach the youthful mind to sigh after happiness that never existed.
Oliver Goldsmith
#92. These cultures come and go for a boundless enthusiasim for histories that might have never existed
J.J. Ratter
#93. Simulation is a copy which has no prototype, the imitation of something that does not exist, and has never existed except than in the simulator's mind.
Anonymous
#95. Our religious police has the most dangerous effect on society - the segregation of genders, putting the wrong ideas in the heads of men and women, producing psychological diseases that never existed in our country before, like fanatacism.
Basmah Bint Saud
#96. I would know something was missing. I would know my life was pointless, even if I never understood why. Even if we'd never met, even if you never existed, I would still love you beyond all reason for the rest of my life.
Aimee Carter
#97. We've decided what we are. That's the dream. When the dream fades, it's not that we don't exist. How could we not exist since we never existed?
Frederick Lenz
#98. In this country, there is an opportunity for the development of man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual potentialities that has never existed before in the history of our species. I mean not simply an opportunity for greatness for a few, but an opportunity for greatness for the many.
Edwin Land
#99. Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!
Jean Dieudonne
#100. Men deluded themselves when they believed in better days, some bygone era when the sun shone brighter. Better days had never existed. Joy had always been stolen, and sweeter because of that fact.
Zachary Jernigan
