Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we’re only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us – the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we’ll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.

I put ‘hope’ in my name to be a hopeful existence in the group.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Every experience proves that the real problem of our existence lies in the fact that we ought to love one another, but do not.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

It was a placing of his destiny in another’s hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This was living., though he did not know it. He was realizing his own meaning in the world; he was doing that for which he was made… He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

Drink,” says the White Logic. “The Greeks believed that the gods gave them wine so that they might forget the miserableness of existence.

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

So we can’t go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can’t really fuel your creative existence any longer because it’s not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.

Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – it’s what comes through.

Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others

A good novel is like a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

I am perfectly confident that I could never adequately convey to any other human being the precise reasons why I continue to refrain from suicide–the reasons, that is, why I still find existence enough of a compensation to atone for its dominantly burthensome quality.

For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left alive.

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit

The universe, the whole mass of things that are, is corporeal, that is to say, body, and hath the dimensions of magnitude, length, breadth and depth. Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere

It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end

God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die

Man’s nature is not separated from his existence. Existence is not a static thing, but a continuous movement towards self-formation.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator

Your true home is in the here and the now

Only the present moment contains life

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence

A woman who doesn’t apologize for her very existence on Earth is rare, and that’s what I wanted for myself.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

It is necessary for the very existence of science that minds exist which do not allow that nature must satisfy some preconceived conditions.

The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality.

A philosopher once said, ‘It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results.’ Well, they don’t!

In truth, money is not created until the instant it is borrowed. It is the act of borrowing which causes it to spring into existence. And, incidentally, it is the act of paying off the debt that causes it to vanish.

Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies all these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions ‘existence’, ‘non-existence’ etc.

Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.

There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.

Long since, the desert wind wiped away our footprints in the sand. But at every second of my existence, I remember what happened, and you still walk in my dreams and in my reality. Thank you for having crossed my path.

The magic moment is the moment when a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ can change our whole existence.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn’t help the mind and isn’t it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

The proofs of the existence of God are to such an extent fallen into discredit that they pass for something antiquated, belonging to days gone by.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

I thought nothing at all, but I felt an immense sadness, as when two parts of one’s past existence, which have been anchored near to one.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.

Have the courage to follow your passion – and if you don’t know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

We’re talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe.

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.