Existence Quotes

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. (Aristotle)
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. View quote
Erich Fromm
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape. View quote
Erich Fromm
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. View quote
Norman Mailer
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. View quote
George Canning
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. View quote
Albert Camus
It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know. View quote
Ayn Rand
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. (Stephen Harper)
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. View quote
George Santayana
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. View quote
Carl Jung
According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. View quote
Ernst Mayr
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. View quote
Sydney Smith
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. View quote
John Updike
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done. View quote
George Carlin
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. (Irena Sendler)
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. View quote
Edmund Burke
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. View quote
Henry James
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence. View quote
John Searle