existence Quotes

“It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant...”

― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger

topic:thought dream existence

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator

topic:life existence

“But the images, forewarned, immediately leaped up and filled my closed eyes with existences: existence is a fullness which man can never abandon.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:existence

“You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no... anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty...”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

topic:soul existence

“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it must invade you suddenly, master you, weigh heavily on your heart like a great motionless beast—or else there is nothing more at all.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:heart existence

“Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.”

― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

topic:nature existence universe

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

topic:life living existence

“Nothing was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is present.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

topic:present existence

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:heart existence

“Every individual concerned with justifying his existence experiences his existence as an indefinite need to transcend himself.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:existence

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