Existence Quotes

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle
Work Me Intelligence Problems Mind Own Analysis Intricate Abhor Atmosphere Exaltation Mental Give Proper Give Me My Own Most Am Dull Existence Crave Stagnation Rebels Routine
Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence. Ravi Zacharias
Life Me Atheist Everyone Our Define Those Points Wrong Come Answer How Existence Questions Did Die Where Happens Skeptic Meaning Fulcrum Right
My eyes are constantly wide open to the extraordinary fact of existence. Not just human existence, but the existence of life and how this breathtakingly powerful process, which is natural selection, has managed to take the very simple facts of physics and chemistry and build them up to redwood trees and humans. Richard Dawkins
Life Eyes Natural Physics Simple Build Chemistry Trees Extraordinary Constantly Fact Selection Take Facts Open Powerful How Redwood Existence Up Very Human Just Process Which Human Existence Them Natural Selection Wide Humans
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence? Marie Kondo
You First Important Say Those Drawer Neither Must Something Outlived Purpose Shameful Longer Discard Cherish Nor Truly Existence Cupboard Truthfully Forgotten Buried Them Then Deeply Wasteful Things Treasure Need
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake
Love Hate Energy Progression Attraction Without Existence Love And Hate Human Human Existence Repulsion Reason Necessary
In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity. Erik Erikson
Feeling Sense Alive Identity Without Existence Jungle Human Being Human Existence Social
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image. Bill Laswell
People Relate Security Threatens Know Understand How Existence Afraid Things Image Career
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. Erich Fromm
Man Animal Problem Own Solve Only He His Existence Which Whom
Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life. Ernie Harwell
Life You Opportunities Ups And Downs Day-To-Day Like Most Make Existence Lot Ups Your Full Baseball Downs
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Women Men Men And Women Lose Mad Raving Go Existence Deprived Meaningful Reason Stark
The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now. Henri Nouwen
Life Spiritual Before Everyday Our Be Real Spiritual Life Only Beyond Joys Real Existence After Midst Pains Lived Now Here
We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence. John Piper
Life God Time Together Light Design Side Back Threads See Weaving Through Lights Glimpse Like Knots Look Most Occasionally Loose Tangled Existence Shines Tapestry Get Larger
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life Death Negation Worse Existence Itself Unemployed Than
Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence. Ronald Reagan
Welfare Own Possible Purpose Existence As Far As Far Should Eliminate Need
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. Benjamin Disraeli
Myself Human Being Will Long Nothing Conviction Meditation Settled Must Brought Purpose Accomplish Existence Human Being Which Stake Fulfillment Even Resist
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. Hannah Arendt
Good Day Freedom One Day Out Constitute Proof Rather Economic Economic Growth Lead Existence Conditions Than May Curse Either Turn Growth
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. Norman Vincent Peale
Life Peace Stress Harmonious Type Easiest Without Existence Being Inner Inner Peace
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. Soren Kierkegaard
Travel Animal People World Seen Fall Mountains Stars Think Birds Freak See Something Rivers Over New Fish Existence Human Commonly Breeds Grotesque
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. Walter Scott
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
Man Seems More Mysterious Him Existence Unintelligent Less
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable. Al Sharpton
Racism Long Society Our Way Say Ways Though Cases Blatant Long Way Undeniable Days Come Inequality Still Existence Discrimination Modern May Often Less Many Now Saturate Slavery
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. Edgar Allan Poe
Future Think Our Dream Shall Look Existence Irrational Fancy Means Present
It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. Erin Morgenstern
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. Lord Byron
Life Love Man Woman Love Is Passion First Lover Others Part She Existence Loves Whole Her
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. Phil McGraw
You People Control Degrade Horrible Someone Names Call Isolate Existence Mean Them
It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence. Robert Smith
Depression Slide Easy Existence Fueled Really
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