1,690 Quotes About Existence

If there’s anything that frightens me the most is a nightmare. It makes me feel primitive, a too bodily and embryonic being.

It still remains special as it’s forgotten, the more I tried to recollect, the more elusive it grew — like the golden deer that enchanted Sita.

We are the hundred years, trapped between seconds.

The world has provided us with a miraculous environment for our existence; the only way to repay our debt is to make a great contribution to the world's existence!

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Atheistic existentialism, of which I am a representative, declares with greater consistency that if God does not exist there is at least one being whose existence comes before its essence, a being which exists before it can be defined by any conception of it. That being is man....

Was fiction the source of life, I wondered. Was it fiction that spawned reality rather than reality seeding fiction? Perhaps and perhaps not. But there is something else, and fiction is close to it. It’s the desire that spawns the need for fiction. Could such simplicity be the engine of the universe?

No declaration changes the existence of God

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.