1,690 Quotes About Existence
- Author Erwin Schrödinger
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Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Leadership is simple. It’s laying down one’s life on behalf of another for no other reason than such an action represents what my existence is all about in the first place.
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- Author H.P. Lovecraft
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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.
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- Author Walpola Rahula
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There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.
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- Author Neale Donald Walsch
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You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.
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- Author Steve Leasock
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It is beneficial to remember that conscious awakening and enlightenment never imply disregarding our content existence practicalities. Peacefulness and balance are to be discovered in recognizing that both the practical aspects of our existence and the totality of life are within the eternal now.
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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Our existence on earth is for our enjoyment.
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- Author Christos Yannaras
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Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.
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- Author Marilynne Robinson
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You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.
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