[ existence Quotes ]



Showing search results for Existence Quotes - 32 quotes about Existence - Dictionary Quotes
32 quotes

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Vocation
Honore De Balzac

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 927 votes

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.
God
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 771 votes

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.
Passion
Christian Nevell Bovee

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 820 votes

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
Existence
Andre Breton

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 890 votes

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Existence
Charles Dickens

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 692 votes

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
Purpose
Benjamin Disraeli

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 710 votes

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

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 599 votes

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 749 votes

The education of the will is the object of our existence.
Will and Will Power
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 602 votes

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Love
Erich Fromm

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 735 votes

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Existence
Erich Fromm

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 664 votes

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Unemployment
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 699 votes

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
Goals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 688 votes

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Faults
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 749 votes

Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
Friends and Friendship
Baltasar Gracian

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 511 votes

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Existence
Eric Hoffer

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 723 votes

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 618 votes

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Immortality
William James

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 703 votes

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
Evil
William James

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 638 votes

There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
Ideology
Jiang Qing

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 756 votes

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 601 votes

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.
Existence
Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 640 votes

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Absurdity
Friedrich Nietzsche

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 695 votes

I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
Dreams
Frederick Salomon Perls

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 701 votes

Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courageous patience.
Ideas
Hyman G. Rickover

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 707 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun