Existence Quotes - Page 34

• Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Courageous, Conviction

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• For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Survival, Firsts

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.119, Penguin

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• There's an oatmeal cookie in there. I see no reason for the existence of oatmeal, particularly in cookies.

  Nora Roberts

  Oatmeal, Cookies, Reason

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• We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Soul, Doubt, Certainty

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• There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Expansion, Justification

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow.

  Richard Kadrey

  Soil, Ashes, Universe

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• I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Gratitude, Children

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• And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all these attempts which seemed without bounds, I find the same desire again: to drive existence out of me, to rid the passing moments of their fat, to twist them, dry them, purify myself, harden myself, to give back at last the sharp, precise sound of a saxophone note. That could even make an apologue: there was a poor man who got in the wrong world.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Giving, Desire

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• How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Doe, Ephemeral

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.

  Enrico Fermi

  Believe, Thinking, Light

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• To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

  Walter Kirn

  Mean, Attachment, Apologizing

  Walter Kirn (2002). “Up in the Air: A Novel”, p.43, Anchor

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• With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.

  Jack London

  Song, Stars, Keys

  Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, Jack London, Kenneth Grahame, Anna Sewell (2017). “Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Children, Simple, Light

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• The English experience suggested that nobody really doubted the existence of God until theologians tried to prove it.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Prove It, Theologian, Doubted

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• Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

  Michael Ende

  Dream, Remember, Never Ending Story

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• He had told her he would love her forever, but he could not stay with her. From that time on, she couldn't see his glow or hear his voice in her head. Could he still hear her? Was he even aware of her existence?

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Voice, Forever, Stills

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

  Ann Patchett

  Giving, Looks, Priests

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• The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Unhappy, Want

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• Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of form a distance; it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast - or else there is nothing at all.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Distance, Heart, Nausea

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Trying, Way, I Can

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.6, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If you value your continued existence, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there's one thing you never, ever put in a trap. Angel Bob: And what would that be, sir? The Doctor: Me. [fires]

  Steven Moffat

  Smart, Angel, Gun

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• You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Real, Genuine, Pretense

  Thomas Bernhard (2011). “Woodcutters”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• I'd witnessed for the first time in my vampire- obsessed existence an actual vampire bite. The only problem was that it wasn't my neck being bitten.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Vampire, Firsts, Necks

  Ellen Schreiber (2011). “Vampire Kisses 8: Cryptic Cravings”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I believe that. But I want you to know something — when it comes to all this enemies nonsense, I’m out. I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. Jacob is family. You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence. I don’t care who’s a werewolf and who’s a vampire. If Angela turns out to be a witch, she can join the party, too.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Country, Twilight, Party

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.135, Penguin

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