Existence Quotes

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

In its 400 years of existence, storytellers never evolved the book as a storytelling device.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results.

The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.

Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe.

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they do is not harmful or offensive to others.

After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.

What is the value of your existence?

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Married life is an existence with bars around it.

My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to be distinctively plant or animal: yet these are definite life in simpler shape.

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

It is possible to spend one's entire lifetime without ever experiencing the mystical realms or even without being aware of their existence.

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

In my family, I would never dare to think of being Paris Hilton! And to me, that doesn't look like a happy existence - it's just not who I am.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact.