Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something that's unsayable about one's incarcerated existence, and it's fun to come up with words to represent that condition, and it's fun to pull the tail of absurdity and rile it up, where you giggle at what you do or you get enthralled and in the short story.

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.

I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

I like to express true emotions under the cover of melancholy: It includes fulfilment and pain, which describes human existence.

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like existence.

In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder, but is in fact the very purpose of its existence.

I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right.

I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls.

I'm a pretty boring guy. Compared to Ashton Kutcher, I live a really boring existence.

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.

In Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

In order that one industry might grow or come into existence, a hundred other industries would have to shrink.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially ARE, the actualities of our full-dimensional existence.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do we repose.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

Is there a mechanism of death, that so mutilates existence no one, gets over it not even the dead?

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

I rarely let the word NO escape from my mouth, because it is so plain to my soul that God has shouted, Yes! Yes! Yes! To every luminous movement in existence.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Is there an existence that is only mine?

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us.

I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!