Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

Your true being, as Consciousness, is ever at peace, ever at rest, eternally existing in the dimension of here and now. It is the formless and eternal quality within you that expresses itself through the world of form.

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 know.

You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the way you see a table square or a Montclair lip-read. Kids today... you kids today somehow don't know how to feel, much less love, to say nothing of respect. We're just bodies to you. We're just bodies and shoulders and scarred knees and big bellies and empty wallets and flasks to you. I'm not saying something cliché like you take us for granted so much as I'm saying you cannot... imagine our absence. We're so present it's ceased to mean. We're environmental. Furniture of the world.

you will always die you will live forever you are nothing & nobody you are made of stars — you will be forgotten

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

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.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

Adjustment? She called that an adjustment? How about I adjust her right out of existence?

A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

A ghetto can be improved in one way only: out of existence.

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

All human existence is a trick of light.

All evil begins with this belief: that another’s existence is less precious than mine.

All existence is a manifestation of God.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

All that humans create serves solely to lessen the terror of existence.

All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence.

Although the pure truth has never been stated, nevertheless it has never been lost. Its existence does not depend upon human statement but upon human sensitivity. In this it is unlike all other knowledge.

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

And woven into the fabric of this harsh existence was music.

An individual human existence should be like a river

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Anxiety comes into existence only when we become identified with small things. And they all pass.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

A really hard laugh is like sex-one of the ultimate diversions of existence.

Art has absolutely no existence as veracity, as truth.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

Assimilation, a certain uniformity of conduct, is necessary in a multi-party state.This is not only a requirement to the established majority; it is also a requirement to the minorities themselves. Because, I repeat myself, a ghetto existence is not very nice.

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .