Existence Quotes

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relationship to everything else.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a thing to employ.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Carson Mccullers

Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Mailer, Norman Kingsley

Youare bornwithtwothings: existenceand opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life
Templeton, Charles

Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved". Being the Beloved expresses the core truth of our existence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Assessing existence while failing to embrace the insights of modern physics would be like wrestling in the dark with an unknown opponent.
Brian Greene

God is Love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved. But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself. And in order to love Himself He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He as the Lover imagines He loves.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West

I write songs and I sing them from the deepest part of my existence and I hope they connect with the deepest part of yours.
Ben Harper

If you place with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything."
Peter Kreeft

The ego exists because we go on pedalling desire, because we go on striving to get something, because we go on jumping ahead of ourselves.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.

People like Thomas Aquinas would say we can't talk about God as a creator because we can only have in our heads the idea of a human creator and that can't apply to God. We can't even say that God exists because our notion of existence is too limited to apply to God. People were instructed to think about this in those terms.

Incomprehensible and immutable is the love wherewith God loves. He did not begin to love us only on the day we were reconciled to Him by the blood of His Son; He loved us before the world was made, that we too might become His sons together with His Only-begotten Son, long before we had any existence....







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