existence Quotes

“Or what is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?”

― Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

topic:youth age existence

“He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:death time past existence

“His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain—why he did not instantly...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:existence

“I believe you can speak things into existence.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

topic:speech existence

“What I'd really like is to be a plowshare. I don't know what that is, but it sounds like an existence with some point to it.”

― Terry Pratchett, The Colour of Magic

topic:existence

“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:reason weakness existence

“My thought is me: that’s why I can’t stop. I exist because I think... and I can’t stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it’s frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:thinking existence

“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

topic:time living existence

“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

topic:existence

“The important point is that you and I should exist, and that we should be you and me. Let everything else get on as best it can. The best order of things, as I see it, is the one that includes me; to hell with the most perfect of worlds, if I'm...”

― Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew

topic:world existence

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