Existence Quotes - page 3

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. (Paulo Coelho)
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Henry David Thoreau
The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday, lost voices, one's favorite suit, autumn and all seasons, memory, yes, it being the earth and water of existence, memory.
Truman Capote
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Tennessee Williams
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
Thomas Malthus
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
Jacques Lacan
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry
A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur.
Ronald Coase
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
Emil Cioran
The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present...yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. (Nicholas Sparks)
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly foresee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.
George Washington
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God's existence.
Karen Armstrong
It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.
Margaret Fuller
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.
Azar Nafisi
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.
Bell hooks
The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill
Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.
Michael Chabon
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.
Gene Wolfe
Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow. (T. S. Eliot)
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I took one Draught of Life -- I'll tell you what I paid -- Precisely an existence -- The market price, they said.
Emily Dickinson
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.
Richard Dawkins