Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

If service is the rent you pay for your existence on this earth, are you behind in your rent?

If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that he had his substance from nothing.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed).

If there is existence, there must be non-existence. And if there was a time when nothing existed, there must have been a time before that - when even nothing did not exist. Suddenly, when nothing came into existence, could one really say whether it belonged to the category of existence or non-existence?

If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence.

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

If you don't exert yourself, or if your exertions don't amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

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.

If you should ever acknowledge my existence, I plan to snub you.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

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

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

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

I live a very Kenneth Williams-like 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 not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence

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.

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

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.

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

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 Him there is no room for non-existence or imperfection

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

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

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

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

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