Only when we love one another do we exist. We only truly know one another when we love one another because we share with them our true selves. In who's mind do you exist when nobody knows the true you? Love is the only thing that can bring 'you' into existence... start by loving 'that person' and you will not fear bringing them into existence for others to discover and love, rather you will fear having them never been seen or met by anyone as if they never even existed.

Byron Christos

The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not.

Réné Gaudette

That which is not comprehended by the mind but by which the mind comprehends—know that...

Prabhavananda

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.

Yukio Mishima

God draws near to us in such a way as to draw us near to himself within the circle of his knowing of himself.

Thomas F. Torrance

So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe——all its matter and forms of energy——arise out of thought.

Dean Koontz

I cannot say that I know Brahman fully.Nor can I say that I know him not....Nor do I know that I know him not.

Prabhavananda

It seems to me that the whole of human life can be summed up in the one statement that man only exists for the purpose of proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not an organ.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

More likely, they would just cease to exist.""That's death.""No, it's different. Death leaves a corps.

Dean Koontz

Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long term viable solution to attaining strength.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.

Richard Ronald Allan

Each instant brought them, more momentous than the explosion of Krakatoa. It was only that no one noticed. We are to accustomed to the absurdity of existence. The loss of a universe is not worth taking seriously.

Yukio Mishima

Remember that existence comes before the happiness and thus to exist is more important than to be happy!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Still, it was fair to say that the minimum requirement for a truly enjoyable existence would be unbridled promiscuity.

Aleksandar Hemon

Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.

Richard Ronald Allan

Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.

John O'Donohue

This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden, then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?

Suzy Kassem

What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave at least songs.

Nezahualcóyotl

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks.

Deep Trivedi

If existence really does precede essence, there is no explaining things away by reference to a fixed and given human nature, In other words, there is no determinism, man is free, man is freedom. On the other hand, if God does not exist, we find no values or commands to turn to which legitimize our conduct. So, in the bright realm of values, we have no excuses behind us, no justification before us. We are alone with no excuses.This is the idea I shall try to convey when I say that man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet in other respects is free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It's both a blessing and a curse to see a woman's beauty!

Ramana Pemmaraju

Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting that nearly all the great things that exist owe their existence to a defiant despite: it is despite grief and anguish, despite poverty, loneliness, bodily weakness, vice and passion and a thousand inhibitions, that they have come into being at all. But this was more than an observation, it was an experience, it was positively the formula of his life and his fame, the key to his work.

Thomas Mann

Existence was never originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me among the rest.

Charlotte Brontë

Sooner or later everything that exists ceases to exist, and then something comes along to take its place, but not always something better.

Dmitry Bakin

When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.

Amit Abraham

Coming out of the Tunnel....I am bursting with a new found feeling of my own existence.Strong and powerful frequencies.My mind is wandering to wide open fields and long-forgotten lands with limitless possibilities. I am not quite there yet.Holding still in anticipation,don’t want to miss hearing my inner voice – soft and deep.With me are friendly skies on rainy days and my life is getting warmer.

Anna Asche

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Kakuzō Okakura

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

Haruki Murakami

...on a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it.

Dean Koontz

We are all tied to the burdens of this existence, and it seems as if everyday renewal is occurring in our lives and those around us.

Kat Lahr

We seek not for forgiveness, but the freedom and time to do more than ‘exist’.

Fennel Hudson

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

Isaac Asimov

I do not love. Love is only for women who are complete. I cannot love while my heart lacks safety and in my wallet there is enough money to pay for a loaf of bread. I cannot kiss you while I am thinking of the house rent and the electricity bills. I cannot behave as a mature woman who can exchange with you phrases of love while my childhood is not yet complete. This is an unfair compromise for safety and for existence. We only call it love to preserve our dignity.

jihad eltabey

here was no way of knowing what path he would take from there, but in order to survive as a human being, he was sure to arrive at the fate of having to incur the dislike of other human beings. When that time came, he would probably clothe himself inconspicuously, so as not to attract attention, and beggarlike, linger about the market places of man, in search of something.

Sōseki Natsume

Simulant - something that doesn't exist but pretends to....Dissimulant - an object that exists but pretends not to.

Stanisław Lem

A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.

Gary Lutz

When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...

Hugo Pratt

What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

George Orwell

Sometimes it’s like that in life too. We look into a past that no longer exists, looking as if it’s real. We hold onto things in our life that there’s no reason to hold onto anymore because, unlike the stars, they don’t bring us beauty, they bring us pain.

Charlene Carr

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

Cormac McCarthy

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

Anthony Marra

Just as the world spun us into existence, it will spin on long after we are gone.

Crystal Woods

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

Narayan Liu

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

Diana Athill

Love is a promise existence makes with us.

Vatsal Surti

When a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moment, past, present, future, always have existed, always will exist.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There's nothing as useful as the truth, in terms of ruining anyone's day, week, month, year, decade, or life… Unless, of course, you own a remotely operated automatic flamethrower-drone-tower and have some marinated pork-chops on your person, to lure unsuspecting dogs in close proximity to it, but since dogs don’t really have lives - by using this specific method of torture, you can only improve the remaining few seconds of their existence.

Will Advise

Why are we here? Is there, really, some intelligent design? Why do we cry for someone who leaves us, if there's some Grand Pearly Gate in the sky? Why worry about how we build our lives if the ultimate ending for all is death, a single breath away?

Ellen Hopkins

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone is folding boxes. Andrew is folding boxes. If the entire job were to fold boxes people would scream. They would fold, and sometimes scream, existentially, then be dragged into a field and beaten into a paste. Sometimes there would be a killing rampage.

Tao Lin

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises!

Mehmet Murat ildan

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what it is. Sorrow is very real, and loss feels very final to us. Life on earth is difficult and grave, and marvelous. Our experience is fragmentary. Its parts don't add up. They don't even belong in the same calculation. Sometimes it is hard to believe they are all parts of one thing. Nothing makes sense until we understand that experience does not accumulate like money, or memory, or like years and frailties. Instead, it is is presented to us by a God who is not under any obligation to the past except in His eternal, freely given constancy.

Marilynne Robinson

Accepting the nonexistence of being,when the absence of existence means the negation of being.

Marieta Maglas- Eschatological Regression

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

Osho

He falls in love because he doesnt want to.

Gwen Calvo

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