Quotes About Merely Existing

#1. A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

Leo Buscaglia

#2. When I was in the desert, I woke each day and carried on with my life, but it wasn't living; it was merely existing. I want to live. You are where I live.

Renee Ahdieh

#3. He feels he isn't so much living as he is merely existing,

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#5. Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

Gregory Maguire

#6. Commercialism and the mad desire to make money have blotted out everything else, and as a result we are not living, but merely existing.

Joseph Knowles

#7. I'm not a politician. I'm not running for office. I can say what I think.

Art Alexakis

#8. Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,

Julian Bond

#9. He thought he'd lived through everything. Only now did he realise he'd merely existed.

Dianna Hardy

#10. Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

Robert G. Picard

#11. When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

Emma Goldman

#12. To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

Chuck Palahniuk

#13. The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#14. Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.

Martial

#15. Be pleasant, patient, and professional, please.

Susan Richards Shreve

#16. A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clusterfuck that was this situation. But I was never a smart woman, and if you didn't believe me, all you had to do was ask my mother.

A. Zavarelli

#17. Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Seth Lloyd

#18. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. Fat

Neil Gaiman

#19. Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?

Mark Hanna

#20. You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do - merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Older actors, and women in particular, are getting more opportunities. It pleases me, its very good news for us. They say that people are living longer, and maybe it's just that there's more of us out there.

Christopher Walken

#22. As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Grace Kelly

#23. Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

John Ruskin

#24. The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Malcolm X

#25. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Albert Einstein

#26. Committees do harm merely by existing.

Freeman Dyson

#27. Whereas in Western countries the constitution merely had to guarantee the rights of a per-existing civil society and culture, in Russia it also had to create these. It had to educate society - and the state itself - into the values and ideas of liberal constitutionalism.

Orlando Figes

#28. Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

Satya Nadella

#29. In general, things that were endowed with life did not, like the Golden Temple, have the rigid quality of existing once and for all. Human beings were merely allotted one part of nature's various attributes and, by an effective method of substitution, they diffused that part and made it multiply.

Yukio Mishima