Quotes about Existence

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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. — John Updike
We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen. — Joyce Meyer
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of exist — Friedrich Nietzsche
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. — Mason Cooley
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, a — Lord Byron
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism — Ambrose Bierce
No matter how committed a marriage, there will always be other people - those we have chemistry with and those we don't, — Lynn Coady
When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence. — Mother Angelica
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. — Norman Vincent Peale
The existence of common features in different forms of life indicates some relationship between the different organisms, — Hans Adolf Krebs
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. — Shirley MacLaine
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. — Edmund Burke
Poetry, being supremely useless, by its very existence represents a protest against the so-called 'real world' of busy-n — Tom Hodgkinson
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. — Ewan McGregor
Ideology... is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands — Louis Althusser
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a d — Stephen Harper
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and futur — Susan Sontag