existence Quotes

“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

“All is full, existence everywhere, dense, heavy and sweet. But, beyond all this sweetness, inaccessible, near and so far, young, merciless and serene, there is this . . . this rigour.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:existence

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”

― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

topic:knowledge existence

“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

topic:time existence

“The true nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, and all that was not present did not exist.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:present existence

“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

topic:existence

“My definition of living is to have excitement always; that’s the difference between living and existing.”

― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

topic:life existence

“Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:love understanding existence

“History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:life history existence

“But what then am I? A thing which thinks. What is a thing which thinks? It is a thing which doubts, understands, conceives, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, which also imagines and feels.”

― René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy

topic:thinking doubt existence

1
2
3
4
5

© Copyright 2024 QuoteImageAI