Existence Quotes - page 91

But in adversity, intelligence alone cannot sustain hope. Ultimately, hope can be sustained only by finding purpose in adversity, by imposing a pattern on the fortuitous disasters of existence. Human beings, if force to it, will compromise their intelligence to preserve their hope. (Edmund Cooper)
These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence. View quote
John Sparrow Thompson
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence.” Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part. View quote
ASAP Rocky
You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There is much pain that is quite noiseless and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. View quote
George Eliot
When the history of Oregon comes to be written the mind of the historian will be impressed by the earnestness and sincerity of character-the unobtrusive, unostentatious conduct of those who formed its population from the first reclaiming of the wilderness-the pioneer epoch-to the more refined advancement into social and political existence. View quote
George Law Curry
By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech. View quote
Harry Blackmun
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. View quote
Ayn Rand
But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into physical reality, to state it in gesture and form. For the man who understands this, a house he owns is a statement of his life. (Ayn Rand)
I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence. View quote
Ayn Rand
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory. View quote
Lucy Lawless
We still have 27,000 warheads in existence. I believe this is 27,000 too many. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Israel claims it needs nuclear weapons as a deterrent against any threat to its existence. The Arab world in return feels that this is an imbalanced system; there is a sense of humiliation and impotence. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Only through the group, I realised - through sharing the suffering of the group - could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. View quote
Yukio Mishima
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. View quote
Yukio Mishima
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression. View quote
Yukio Mishima
For I cannot but regard it as the same spirit which, with whatever profession of zeal, and for whatever ends of supposed piety or obedience, strives to subvertthe natural evidences of morals, - the existence of a Supreme Intelligent Cause. There is a scepticism which repudiates all belief; there is also a scepticism which seeks to escape from itself by a total abnegation of the understanding, and which, in the pride of its new-found security, would recklessly destroy every internal ground of humant trust and hope... Now to this, as to a former development of the sceptical spirit, Science stands in implied but real antagonism. View quote
George Boole
To infer the existence of an intelligent cause from the teeming evidences of surrounding design, to rise to the conception of a moral Governor of the world, from the study of the constitution and the moral provisions of our own nature. View quote
George Boole
One of the best product of the 20th century Renaissance in Philippine arts and letters, Don Epifanio de los Santos y Cristobal exemplified the intellectual gentlemen whose passion for knowledge and the arts paralleled his life long existence. (Epifanio de los Santos)
Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one. The pain is an anchor, mooring me. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What's done is done, what's yet to be is clearly yet to be. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The negation of cognition thus correlates on the verbal level. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; you chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. View quote
Haruki Murakami
We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts. View quote
Morrison Waite