Our Existence Quotes

#1. So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Thom Mayne

#2. Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns.

Audre Lorde

#3. Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. I once read that for every person currently alive on earth, there are nineteen dead people who have lived before us. That's not that much really. Our existence as a species on earth has been so short. We forget that.

Douglas Coupland

#5. The mind can also be kind and does blot out those episodes of our existence that we can't erase in our consciousness.

F. Sionil Jose

#6. Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.

Martin Heidegger

#7. We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence.

John Taylor

#8. Play is a sacred act. When we are playing, the essence of all creation flows freely through us. We are expressing our true nature and connecting with the very core of our existence. Nothing is more spiritual than that.

Victor Shamas

#9. Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Aga Khan IV

#10. [N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

Johann Baptist Metz

#11. The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Stanley Kubrick

#12. The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

William Barrett

#14. We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence equals the amount of time it takes a warm breeze to blow through your hair on a spring day.

Paul S. Anderson

#15. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

Steven Pressfield

#17. Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about the next generation, but we don't actually seem to get anywhere.

Robert Smith

#18. I am kissing her for a reason that transcends want and need, that feels elemental to our existence, a molecular component on which our
universe will be built.

David Levithan

#19. Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#20. If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

Anne Lamott

#21. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

Patrick Henry

#22. It would be nice if life weren't so messy, but that's just not the nature of things; we want things to be perfect, but most of the time we just spend our existence cleaning up the messes we make - and sometimes the messes of other people, people about whom we care most in the world.

Craig Johnson

#23. Our existence here, he says, is a case of "not we the accidental but we the expected." Mathematician Manfred Eigen wrote in 1971, "The evolution of life, if it is based on a derivable physical principle, must be considered an inevitable process.

Kevin Kelly

#24. If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

George MacDonald

#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. Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture.

Ravi Zacharias

#27. The United States did not choose to fight Islamic extremists. These terrorists chose to fight our way of life. They chose to challenge our existence.

John Boehner

#28. Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.

Albert Williams

#29. Looking at the pattern of our existence from birth to death, we can see the way in which we are fundamentally nurtured by other's affection.

Dalai Lama

#30. Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.

Dennis Kucinich

#31. There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

Queen Elizabeth II

#32. I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#33. There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs ... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#34. We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

Lev Manovich

#35. Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.

Dalai Lama XIV

#36. The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.

Viktor E. Frankl

#37. The unity of four elements is what constitutes and sustains our existence in this world.

John O'Donohue

#38. Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together?

Afton Rorvik

#39. We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

Anis Mojgani

#40. Keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one's life; given the centrality of death in our existence, given that life and death are interdependent, how can we possibly ignore it?

Irvin D. Yalom

#41. I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back and let other people define our existence.

Spike Lee

#42. If we hope to live not just from moment to moment, but in true consciousness of our existence, then our greatest need and most difficult achievement is to find meaning in our lives.

Bruno Bettelheim

#43. Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich

#44. Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity.

Mary Baker Eddy

#45. Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

Mark Lynas

#46. Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#47. I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.

Alan Moore

#48. The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

Ansel Adams

#49. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

Ken Wilber

#50. There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.

Anne Sewitsky

#51. In dark moments of our existence; Life teaches us prudence.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#52. How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence
I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#53. Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

Tony Samara

#54. Labor is the divine law of our existence.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#55. There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

Reuven Rivlin

#56. Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence.

John Lubbock

#57. The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

Nirmala Srivastava

#58. Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

Charlotte Bunch

#59. When we let the energy of our existence flow freely, without being obstructed by fear, happiness finds its way into our daily lives.

Raphael Zernoff

#60. I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people
unidentified but no less real
are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.

Christopher Moore

#61. If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks
eternal marks.

Beth Moore

#62. Who are we when we don't allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.

Sarah Noffke

#63. The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

Stephen Hawking

#64. Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured. But

Elena Ferrante

#65. Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards

Andrei Tarkovsky

#66. The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.

Paul Davies

#67. The webs spun by our existence had gracefully overlapped and knotted until you could not have one without the other. We were infinitely intertwined.

Blakney Francis

#68. Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Honore De Balzac

#69. The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

Larry Fessenden

#70. On a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Dean Koontz

#71. For the substance of our existence is not in achievements, but method

Brandon Sanderson

#72. Knowing something about the deep origins of humanity only adds to the remarkable fact of our existence: all of our extraordinary capabilities arose from basic components that evolved in ancient fish and other creatures.

Neil Shubin

#73. Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Alain De Botton

#74. But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#75. Life is difficult. That blunt, three-word statement is an accurate ap praisal of our existence on this planet.

Charles R. Swindoll

#76. Nothing influences our ability to cope with the difficulties of our existence so much as the context in which we view them; the more contexts we can choose between, the less do the difficulties appear to be inevitable and insurmountable.

Theodore Zeldin

#77. The final section of the book returns to ourselves and asks how it is possible to think about our existence in the light of the strange world described by physics. The

Carlo Rovelli

#78. Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure have consequences. wicked and fucked. love comes with hurting. And having means losing.

Ira N. Barin

#79. No more lies and speeches of delusions out of the reality of our existence

Mazigh Buzakhar

#80. Technological advances happen so quickly, and integrate themselves so seamlessly into the fabric of our existence, that we hardly note their arrival anymore, let alone the ways in which they come to dominate and define us.

Ron Currie Jr.

#81. Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

Neal Shusterman

#82. A church that assumes the gospel is a church that soon loses the gospel. The church now must articulate, at every phase, the reason for our existence, because it is no longer an obvious part of the cultural ecosystem.

Russell D. Moore

#83. It is we ourselves who must answer the questions that life asks of us, and to those questions we can respond only by being responsible for our existence.

Viktor E. Frankl

#84. We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.

John Mackey

#85. By how many people must we be loved in order to be happy? Two? Five? Ten? Or maybe only one? The one who gives us sight. Who takes away fear. Who breathes meaning into our existence. There

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#86. He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#87. Given the facts, our existence seems quite improbable - more miraculous, perhaps, than the seven-day wonder of Genesis.

Judith Hooper

#88. I suppose, in the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.

Robert Fisk

#89. Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence." --Bimal Shah.

Bimal Shah

#90. Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich

#91. The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

#92. The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Speak, Memory: A Memoir

Sheldon Solomon

#93. Curiosity is the essence of our existence.

Gene Cernan

#94. In addition, human beings have, in the most recent few tenths of a percent of our existence, invented not only extra-genetic but also extrasomatic knowledge: information stored outside our bodies, of which writing is the most notable example.

Carl Sagan

#95. The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.

Chogyam Trungpa

#96. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?

Voltaire

#97. Life is such a big book, Some people can read it and others can not, Only people who can read knows the meaning of life and the secret of our existence

Amr Algendy

#98. 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

#99. We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

Lewis Thomas

#100. In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our existence is not in the achievement, but in the method.

Brandon Sanderson