Quotes about Existence

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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina
There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaini — John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
To be, or not to be: that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous f — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the ap — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man' — Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one fo — Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. — Emil M. Cioran
People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld
I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me — David Almond, Jackdaw Summer
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of — Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point: 1979-1996
You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't — Patrick Ness, More Than This
Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack o — C. JoyBell C.
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a pro — H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed — Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing — Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His — Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason
We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging — Parmenides
If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… — Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
The human body resonates at the same frequency as Mother Earth. So instead of only focusing on trying to save the earth, — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem