Existence Quotes
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Camus, Albert
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.
Cooley, Mason
Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.
Crisp, Quentin
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us
Democritus
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Dickens, Charles
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Fellini, Federico
You exist only in what you do.
Fromm, Erich
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Gita, Bhagavad
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
Hawking, Stephen
If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would know the mind of God. (Closing words, referring to the question, “why it is that we and the universe exist.”)
Hawking, Stephen
Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Hoffer, Eric
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Jung, Carl
The world begins to exist when the individual discovers it.
Mill, John Stuart
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Putnam, Vi
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.
Renard, Jules
We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
Smith, Sydney
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sontag, Susan
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
Thoreau, Henry David
Being is the great explainer.
Updike, John
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
Valery, Paul
"The man thinks; therefore I exist," said the Universe.
Weil, Simon
I can, therefore I am.
Wolfe, Thomas
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.