Existence Quotes - Page 11

• My whole existence is spent just trying to not shove bad food in my fat face. It's like a constant struggle. I'll do really good for a while, and then I do bad, then I do really good.

  Jim Norton

  Struggle, Trying

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• The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

  Randy Alcorn

  Rip, Law, Giving

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• I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Believe, Practice, Elements

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• . . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a slave or a well-fed cog in the machine . . . It is not enough that men are not slaves; if social conditions further the existence of automatons, the result will not be love of life, but love of death.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Life, Men, Venture

  Erich Fromm (1963). “War Within Man: A Psychological Enquiry Into the Roots of Destructiveness”

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• If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

  Margaret Cho

  Feminist, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

  Peter Ustinov

  Food, Night, Men

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• Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

  Emily Bronte

  Men, Gone, Earth

  'Last Lines'

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• The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Agreement, Slavery, Covenant

  Resolution adopted by Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 27 Jan. 1843.

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• The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Adversity, Order

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• In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Class, Community, Black

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Husband, Israel, Years

  "Leadership Begins With Character". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 21, 2012.

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• Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Caring, Individuality, Faults

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

  Simone Weil

  Danger, Trembling, Exposed

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.13, Psychology Press

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• One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Giving, Ifs

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• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

  Todd Rundgren

  Lying, Order, Everyday

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.

  Richard Russo

  Suicide, Kids, Thinking

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• As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence, always incomplete, and correctly intuit the whole, to see the world in a grain of sand, to recognize its beauty, its simplicity, its truth. It's as close as we get to God in this life, and reside in the glow of such brief flashes of understanding, fully awake, sometimes for two or three seconds, at peace with our existence. And then back to sleep we go.

  Richard Russo

  Sleep, Thinking, Two

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Dec 28, 2010

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• Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.

  Jerry Saltz

  Cutting, Artist, Ideas

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• The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that.

  Julian Sands

  Yards, Mumbai, Bombay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Evil, Morality, Human Nature

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• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

  Voltaire

  Power, Thinking, Ideas

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4520, Delphi Classics

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• The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism.

  George Santayana

  Evil, Optimism, Ruins

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.599, Indiana University Press

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• I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Concentration

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Existence precedes and rules essence.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophical, Essence

  L'°tre et le n‚ant (Being and Nothingness, 1943) pt. 4, ch. 1

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• Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, World, Pretender

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