1,690 Quotes About Existence
- Author Gustaf Stromberg
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Memory is that element in our consciousness that connects the past with the present. If we had no memory, there would be only one moment of our life, the moment we call now, and we would never consciously recognize more than this single moment.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Life is an activity with which we kill time while we wait for something, someone, or the mere passage of time to kill us.
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- Author Hugo Pratt
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When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...
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- Author Ken Poirot
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Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.
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- Author Stanisław Lem
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Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.
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- Author Munia Khan
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My arrivalHer womb’s delightHer existenceMy living lightHer woundsMy scarsHer skiesMy starsHer daysMy hoursHer strengthMy powersI breathe my name Being her childWithout motherLife’s beguiledFrom the poem 'Mother
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- Author Kurt Vonnegut
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When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist.
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- Author David Malouf
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What does it mean to be ,' he thought, 'except to be known?
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- Author Gary Lutz
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A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.
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