1,690 Quotes About Existence
- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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The eternity of existence is the sacredness of faith.
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- Author Simone de Beauvoir
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Le nihiliste a raison de penser que le monde no possède aucune justification et que lui-même n'est rien; mais il oublie qu'il lui appartient de justifier le monde et de se faire exister valablement.
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- Author Carl Sagan
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We will die and we fear death. This fear is worldwide and transcultural. It probably has significant survival value. Those who wish to postpone or avoid death can improve the world, reduce its perils, make children who will live after us, and create great works by which they will be remembered.
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- Author Matt Haig
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Basically it says that the world is what we recognise in our own will. Humans are ruled by their basic desires and this leads to suffering and pain, because our desires make us crave things from the world but the world is nothing but representation. Because those same cravings shape what we see we end up feeding from ourselves, until we go mad. And end up in here.
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- Author Jerzy Kosiński
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Facing the cameras with their unsensing triple lenses pointed at him like snouts, Chance became only an image for millions of real people. They would never know how real he was, since his thinking could not be televised. And to him, the viewers existed only as projections of his own thought, as images. He would never know how real they were, since he had never met them and did not know what they thought.
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- Author Saroj Aryal
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how can one be humble when existence resides inside him ?how can one not be humble when only existence resides inside him ??
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- Author Danilo Kiš
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A sve što nadživi smrt jeste jedna mala ništavna pobeda nad večnošću ništavila - dokaz ljudske veličine i Jahvine milosti. Non omnis moriar.
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- Author D.S.Smith
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Do I believe in God?” “I believe there must be more to our existence than just chance.
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- Author Louise Glück
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this, this is the meaning of "a fortunate life": it means to exist in the present.
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